From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:03:14 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:52 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake

> "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
> > ... unlike most adults, I retain a firm grip on my childhood
> > memories and I can recall my thoughts of that time in my life, as
> > well as remembering the many and varied conversations I had with my
> > peers as preschoolers.
>
> Doesn't everyone?  My memories go back to age 19 months.  Probably
> further, but I didn't have much sense of time at the time.

I've dated my earliest memories to within a week or two after birth --
specific incidents which I compared my memories of with my mother when I
was teenaged.  But we are the exceptions, not the rule.  Many adults cannot
recall their life before they started school, and some cannot even recall
their grade-school years.  These are the people who think of and refer to
children as "aliens," a separate species of which they were never a part.
Frankly, I find such adults more alien.

--Ted White