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Why you can’t remember being a toddler

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You cannot remember anything before your third birthday, and no, it is not because nothing happened. As you grew, rapid developmental changes in your mental architecture essentially reformatted your hard drive, overwriting those early files permanently. Your entire origin story is completely gone, leaving you to rely on awkward family photos for proof of existence.

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