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Please enjoy the memories others have shared with us here in the Memory Gallery. You can share your own memory with us here.

Cathie Simpson Cathie Simpson

Not quite potty trained

I remember coming down some stairs and pooping. I wasn’t wearing a diaper because my parents must have decided,

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Learning how to walk

The earliest memory I can remember is learning how to walk. I remember the room.

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Fourth of July party

I was about a year old, and I was sitting in a playpen looking out at the pool. My parents and I were at a 4th of July party in New Jersey.

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The day of my birth

Though the assertion hits you smack between the eyes, incites your mirth, provokes your incredulity, yet shall I still maintain until the day of my death that I can remember the day of my birth.

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Cathie Simpson Cathie Simpson

Looking in the mirror

i remember seeing myself in the mirror of my parents' closet in their bedroom. my mother is standing to the right of me and is wearing something beige/pastel pink.

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Walking for the first time

I was about 7 months old and remember walking for the first time. I recall my feet hitting the floor from my Mother's bed and then swaying back and forth. The weight of my body on my feet was heavy. I remember walking down the hall into the kitchen.

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Language and movement

Language and movement are my earliest memories estimating 4-9 months. Lying alone awake with people nearby, speaking not to me but to one another. Their voices sounded muffled and fast, different from how they addressed me.

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Riding in cars with The Beatles

One of my earliest memories was knowing my first New Years Eve back in 1969. I remember riding in my grandmother's car, which was a '57 Desoto.

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Aquarius, let the sunshine in

I remember a lot from when I was a baby. Maybe it's because of my disability, Aspergers Syndrome, I don't know. I was born in 1969, and what I remember the most from when I was a baby is hearing the 5th Dimension song “Aquarius, Let The Sunshine In.”

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Flea infestation

I was 6-to-8-months old when we moved into an upstairs apartment that was sunny and bright and had a pea-soup green carpet, but was flea infested!

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Diaper recollections

Before I could walk or talk, I vividly remember wiggling out of my diaper, pulling myself up on the bars of my crib, and smearing poop into a built-in intercom above, which I disliked for making random static noises.

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Girl in crib

I really had a picture of a sleeping baby on the wall above my crib that I would communicate with

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Feeling trapped

Now I'm on my back. My body feels like it's wrong or needs something? No there's nothing wrong with me!

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