Guys I was one of those people making faces at him, and I remember that baby had a look on his face like he was thinking "what stupid creatures".

It's not often that you get a perfect crossover of /r/thathappened and /r/iamverysmart!

It has been proven that babies cannot create complex memories before about the age of three. Think back to your first memory; it's probably from when you were about three.

Wait, what I meant to say was that this middle-age man remembers the $100% truth!

I hate these sorts of people. You weren't a special fucking snowflake. Your brain is not that developed when you are a baby. And baby talk/making faces at babies helps with their cognitive development. Mocking it doesn't make you seem enlightened.

Wow just find me one fake story from human of New York. You can't. It's impossible. This story right here is just one out of many that exists.

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I very clearly recall the moment when my dad's sperm cell met my mother's ovum and i was fused into existence. I specifically remember, as the cellular mitosis began and I grew into a cluster of meat cells, thinking what a lovely womb this is. I also remember not being a complete fucktard.

Humans of New York should be considered cheating. Everything on there happened so hard.

Peoples eyes do not work normally for like a few months after they are born

Ahh the magnificent, but quite rare, 57 year old male special snowflake.

He looks like what I imagine the operator of a Ponzi scheme must look like.

I'll never forget my first memory, I was swimming with a bunch of other folks toward this big ball, we all tried to get inside but I was the only one who made it. I sat there contemplating everything for 9 months before I got bored and left.

This reeks of /r/iamverysmart

It sounds unbelievable, so we can make all the jokes we want, but babies have great cognitive abilities, they are fast learners, and a lot of the abilities humans possess are innate. This man, believe it or not, was a case study for this sort of science nearly 30 years ago. You can watch the documentary if you want, it is called "Look Who's Talking".

Edit: Wow thanks for the gold /u/Manicaeks, I am glad real scientists like yourself are keenly aware the importance of hard hitting documentaries like this. If only others would be so bold as to actually watch true science at work.

He isn't middle aged. This is definitely false.

Someone should claim they showed him a flash card when he was an infant and ask him if he can remember what was on it.

Then no matter what he says so "no, it was something else"

Humans of New York is such a bunch of fake ass profundity it's fucking tiring.

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tbf he probably genuinely has this "memory" even if it obviously wasn't actually formed when he was actually an infant

Let us not go to New York... It is a silly place

Am I the only one who thinks this is a joke and that he doesn't actually mean he remembers the first weeks of his life?

A guy at work told me he spoke such good English because, as a baby, his crib was close to the tv. We live in a non-English speaking country, just to be clear. So yeah this seems to be equally true.

He also remembers sucking on his moms sweet round tits and now has a incest fetish, truly a troubled man.

Stewie Griffin was real?

HONY is just too easy for this.

If Humans of New York doesn't make you hate NYC, I don't know what to tell you.

Brian Williams was at the scene making faces at him and has said he can confirm this story.

Middle-aged? What is he going to live to be 175?

I kind of have the reverse reaction when I look at babies. I think, "man, that baby sure is stupid!"

The earliest memory I have is when I was around 1 or 2 years old. I know that because the earliest memory I have I was still in a high chair and the house that I lived in at that time I was only there until I was 2. I actually remember what my house looked like, but I only have 3 different memories from that house.

Most everyone in these "Humans of New York" pictures come off as super pretentious to me.

Haha. Humans is a gold mine for 100% true stories.

Quick, think of something interesting before I take your picture and blast it to millions of people all over Facebook!

He is an old senile drunk. What he remembers is something that happened last week.

"What stupid creatures," he thought, in a language he had not yet learned involving concepts he could not yet grasp.

It had been shown that infants aren't even aware that there are minds other than their own. There is no way they would be able to understand the concept of a quantifiable difference in the superiority of two minds. That's just stupid.

ITS GRAY MANN! I KNOW IT IS!

So just to play devil's advocate, this is at least plausible. There are a number of exceptional memory "syndromes" that can make this possible. I personally am a savant and have memories that are crystal clear to me from a very young age that can be verified by my parents. That said, those memories are like watching a film. I can only see the image. Very few of those do I remember the exact thoughts running through my mind at the time. The ones that I do remember are based off context clues. For example, I remember being in an argument with my older brother about who the boss (him or my parents) was when I was 3 and he was 4. It's pretty easy to deduct my memories and emotions from a memory like that.

I'm not saying this guy's story is 100% true. If he's is anything like me, this could very well have happened, but I doubt he remembers thinking they were stupid. But then again, I'm no expert. I just know what I remember.

EDIT: Just reread what the guy said. I didn't realize he said 1 or 2 weeks after he was born. I feel stupid.

My 40 year old aunt claims to remember breast feeding.

Abomination!

Man who doesn't know jack shit about how brain development and neuroscience work was able to have complex thoughts as an infant.

FTFY

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Stewie is that you?

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WOOP, didn't look at what sub it was. WOOP WOOP WOOP~

DOUBT IT

Ray Bradbury also claimed this.

I remember crying about a cold draft making me uncomfortable when I was a few weeks old. Wait, that was last week.

I'm almost positive this is from a book called the Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.

One of my favorite books, Autobiography of a Yogi, starts off the same way. He recollects his life as a yogi, passing his soul from a yogi in the Himalayan mountains to an infant, fully aware of everything around him but feeling hopelessly trapped because he couldn't speak yet. Such a great read and if you haven't checked it out I'd recommend it. Even if you don't believe in the stories he tells, listen to the messages like how one should interpret every spiritual text.

That's very close to an old Steven Wright bit.

Look, it's Susie Swanson in 50 years!

me 2

And fuck Humans of New York for posting. All of their article stories seem like bullshit and should be posted on this sub.

I can actually remember being an infant also. I remember being in the crib, and not knowing how to walk. Also wanting a banana but not knowing how to speak.

Then I shat myself and started crying for one of those stupid creatures to wipe my ass.

What a dickhead

My sister has a memory of something that my mother confirmed to have happened, from when she was an infant. It was a boring regular moment but she remembered it.

I actually remember a small part of my early childhood. Three memories from 3-5. All of them involving me getting up to badass shit.

I have some exteremely vague memories since I was very young (before being able to walk), mostly related to unfamiliar environments.

He's more of a senior citizen than middle aged.

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I like that he mentions the story of people pulling silly faces to him as a key memory of his infancy and skips right over those memories of him shitting his pants time and time again (not to mention his mother dabbing at his a-hole and nuts with a wet wipe to clean his crap off)

Not even kidding, I spoke fluent Spanish before my first birthday. Ugh..commoners.

not that stupid really it's quite likely he believes it I've got issues with the way my memory is processed and stored and I misremember or completely form fake memories from the dreams I have

I remember a similar memory from being a toddler, but unable to express it and becoming frustrated when my "words" were only taken as cute noises.

The stupid creatures name? Albert Einstein.

Memory of events doesn't develop until around age three because the brain isn't developed enough until then. It's impossible to remember being an infant.

Did HONY delete this picture or is this screenshot older?

He still has time to turn his life around.

am I the only one who took this as a joke?

Doubt all you want, but I actually can as well. The only difference is that I recalled an event that I wouldn't have known unless I remembered... My parents both doubted me until I told them what I remember seeing. (A big spider on the wall only 2 weeks after I was born)

Idk, i have about 3 or 4 memories of being an infant, and I remember the way I felt, but not really thoughts like he says. I remember being carried by my mother and a bus went by and the noise was just horrible and I started bawling so hard, I don't think I'll ever forget it, even when I'm an old man.

hony is retarded

Isnt that fb page pretty much lies all aboard?

This might be the most cynical subreddit on Reddit.

Middle-aged man says he remembers being an infant.

My earliest memory is of around 2~3.

I don't think he's being serious.

Guess what, it does happen. I can remember crawling at age 1 year, I knocked over a plant behind a couch near a living room window. My mom confirmed the story. I can remember ridiculous amounts of detail from my childhood.

I don't think anyone interpreted that as someone actually making that claim. It was supposed to be amusing.

After this picture he used his cane as a dildo. A big pretentious dildo

I actually do remember snippets of memory from infancy,

Then again, I'm only 16 and I can't remember having had such coherent thoughts as "What stupid creatures."

Remember when /r/thathappened was about pointing out people's bullshit stories and not people using exaggeration and rhetoric?

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