How far back into the past do you recognize yourself?

About five years for me- depending on the subject. I look at myself as a teen and I can’t believe that was me. Same for my twenties.

Two years sounds about right at your age. If it’s any consolation, there’s a good chance that by 23, your parents will become brilliant. And between 27 and 30, you should be able to see ahead to the consequences without actually having to have the experience.

about a year ago, I’m 19 now and at the tender age of 18 I made some bad decisions but I’m sure a year from now I’ll say the same thing about 19.

I don’t remember anything before I was like 8 or 9.

I was a serious teen. I grew up broke and had to go to college to get a paying job and I did. My problem came years later. I have such lousy taste in men that I have had to quit them for the sake of sanity and all that is sacred!!

32 years ago for me. Started with the wrong company in the wrong job right out of college.

I’d benchmark it at about 2 years old myself. I’m more than twice your 20 years of age so I don’t think your youth is the reason your recall started then.

This isn’t to say that I didn’t take some serious hiatuses from decision making/consciousness along the way, lol.

But that is my first memory of making a decision.

only a couple years, but i’m only 20 as well so i think thats about right.

at first though i thought you meant physically and i was going to say that thankfully, i dont recognize myself from my middle school years because i had harry potter glasses (BEFORE HE WAS COOL) and thus looked like harry potter with a bad wig on.

I “recognize” myself probably all the way back until I was 3. Sure, I’ve grown up and matured, but there is an essence to me that has remained the same all these years. I started drawing when I was 2, keeping “secret” papers when I was 4, realized Death when I was 5, rejected God when I was 6…Oh it goes on.

I’m currently 20. I can’t really think of any poor choices that I have made in my life…if I have, I don’t regret them and I have learned from them. Generally, my pattern of making choices has remained the same.

I’m horrendously predictable.

I am 53. I would say, going backwards, 10 was when I was foreign to who I am now. Lots of bad decisions. Some good ones, too, but the bad ones eat at my soul.

im 26 nearly 27 now, and i can remember waiting up at night to see the garbage truck drive past from our balcony at our old house. so yea, i was about 2 or just under or just over. i still remember the motivation and reason for the decisions. i do remember learning to walk too, and even a few things before that, but thats where it gets real hazy. and also its a bit tricky too. i have memories of me in my play pen, and i must have been only a baby or something. but its hard to remember clearly and know im right. i could just be remembering early stories i heard and imagined pictures for.

Sometimes I wonder what in the heck I was thinking about decisions I made yesterday. But I always know who I am.