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Today's episode includes descriptions of child abuse and may be difficult for some listeners.

Even for those of us who did not experience childhood trauma, memories of our younger years are pretty sparse, partially because, for some of us who

are hitting middle age, for example, these events took place many decades ago. But also because

our brains store memories differently as very young children, which is why you can't remember,

for example, being born. And this is why we rely on our parents, for the most part, to be the historians of our childhood.

And this goes for our health history, too.

I, for example, have a thin white scar from the time I put a tooth through my upper lip after I jumped off the deck at age three.

But I don't actually remember it.

I do remember trying to catapult my friend off of a piece of plywood we

found in the neighbor's yard and putting a nail through my foot several years later. Ah, the 80s,

but only my mom remembers taking me to the emergency room for my tennis shot. But what if your

childhood was almost nothing but these types of stories? With large swaths of your time being

spent in and out of the hospital for an illness or emergency,

and what if all at once, as an adult, you realized you couldn't trust anything you thought you knew?

People believe their eyes.

That's something that is so central to this topic

because we do believe the people that we love

when they're telling us something.

If we didn't, you could never make it through your day.

I'm Andrea Dunlop, and this is Nobody Should Believe Me.

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