People who claim to have memories of being a two year old?

i've read that the hippocampus, which is a brain center essential to memory, doesn't completely form until the 2-3 yo timeframe.

"The hippocampus is not fully developed at birth; that takes about two and one half years. An interesting effect of this is infantile amnesia--most people do not have declarative memories from their first couple years of life."

https://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~pineda/COGS107A/studyguide/module_11.htm

I have memories of when I was even younger than 2. My parents have confirmed that what I remember happened. There aren't pictures or video of it, so.....

I don't remember like my whole life, but I do have specific memories. My family jokes that I probably remember being in the womb.

I have a vivid memory, but it didn't start until I was 3... I remember almost everything since. I scare OTHER people by telling them about THEIR lives... It's the same when I read, the retention, and usually for movies, especially if they were great.

The problem is that memory is retroactive, you'll see this happen in cop shows all the time.

Put witness in front of a lineup... 'Which one did the crime?" witness "they all look alike" cop "what about the scar" witness "oh right, I now remember there was a scar on the left cheek."

See, people can convince themselves that they have a memory when what really happened was that they constructed a memory for themselves and now believe it to be true. Similar to asking people what they were eating at a ball game, if it wasn't unusual they'd think about what they normally eat at a ball game and then associate that with what they were eating.

The way we "remember" things isn't like photographs, it's reconstructive... we build off of things we know and make up all the rest. This is why people remember things differently as they get older and have more experience in life... it's because they're applying their experience on the fragments of information we call a memory to form a new perspective.

I remember bits and pieces of being in a wheel chair after breaking my leg, but not the incident itself.

My earliest memories are from 3. The theory is that language acquisition is related to memory, hence once you learn to speak you remember things. But there are definitely people who have memories of being 2. Maybe even 1. And some remember their past lives.

I have a distinct memory of my Dad coming home to our apartment home at the time and my Mom and him urging me to walk back and forth between them. 14 months is the average age that children walk, which would have been much less than 2 years old. I remember that distinctly, and the scratchiness of my Dad's 5 o'clock shadow when he picked my up and hugged me. Also a couple of others, but not so much of the context and time.

Oh, and there were no pictures of this either for me to fake-remember.

I remember my 2nd birthday. I remember the clowns my parents invited who frightened me.