Struggling with separation anxiety" This woman remembers being 1-year-old
by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting
Once, when my firstborn son was 1-and-a-half-year-old, I drug his highchair into our bathroom. I had to shower, and he could not handle me being out of view. I'm sure the sight of me jumping in the shower and then popping my head out every minute to assure my strapped in, crying baby I hadn't disappeared forever was ridiculous, but I didn't know what else to do.
I also didn't get why this was happening. Up until that point in his life we'd done pretty well. He hadn't freaked when I wasn't in view when he was 6-months-old, and most wonderfully he slept through the night at about 6-weeks-old. But here, 18 months into it, he was crying for me at night and it felt like we were making backwards progress.
Naturally, I did some reading on separation anxiety, but as adult I felt it hard to sympathize with. "Come on, kid," I wanted to say. "We did fine before. What the heck is going on with you"!"
It's only now, after the unique opportunity of reading about a woman who remembers going through it as a baby, that I think I finally get it.
Rebecca Shamrock, a woman living in Australie is one of just 60 people in the the world who has Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM). She can remember nearly every single day of her life -- all the way back to  just 12 days old.
In a post for Omni she recently wrote:
"My earliest memory of which I can date is from when I was twelve days old. My parents carried me to the...
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