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There’s something about school memories that makes them so vivid and long-lasting, it feels like they happened yesterday. The classic ones like leaving home wearing slippers or failing a math exam usually come back in a sweaty nightmare. Miscellaneous memories like stealing a scented marker from your classmate arrive with a flashback. More emotional ones like an auntie picking you up all worn-out after another day at school can be triggered by a sharp valerian scent that reminds you of her.

But the most peculiar thing about these experiences is that they’re both too specific and too weird to digest. That’s why, when Twitter users started sharing their personal flashbacks from elementary school, people came to the conclusion that we all lived in the same childhood.

Pandas, if any of the posts below ring a bell to you, don’t forget to share your personal take on elementary school in the comments. And after you’re done reading this one, keep going down memory lane with some more school nostalgia here and here.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oooh, that raspy woody tongue-feel! It almost wasn't worth it. Almost.

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Typically, our earliest memories begin to form at around the time we’re 2 or 3. From this time on, kids learn how to express their inner emotions and make a coherent sentence. However, there are some dark spots in our memory when it comes to the age of kindergarten or elementary school. Scientists believe that childhood amnesia is to blame.

As soon as you become an adult, it becomes virtually impossible to retrieve early episodic memories. It seems quite paradoxical because the human ability to retrieve childhood memories shouldn’t deteriorate with time if the brain is functioning well and one could be described as healthy.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i sat in a meeting the other day, which was absolutly useless and boring and a colleague and i made one of these :D it was fun

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Modern theorists explain that the key to forgetting lies in the early development of the brain itself, because infants are able to recall information for weeks or even months. The amnesia of early events occurs suddenly over a period of two years, and the younger you are, the more likely you’ll forget things from early days. However, the tendency to forget slows down with age.

With every single reminiscence, we make a repetition in our brain that allows us to keep the episode longer in our memory banks. Walking down memory lane every now and then turns out to be an excellent way to keep the precious moments locked in our brains!

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so nostalgic. i remember in 2nd grade, my teacher would use that to show metamorphosis.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is this about? I never did this and I never saw it as a child in any school I attended in the U.K. in the 80's.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have about 20 of those floating around my house! haha

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like you’ll be living on a deserted island for the rest of your life then

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We used to play with a parachute in elementary PE. Everyone grabs an edge, throws it up & runs under. It's probably illegal now, since we did bump into each other, but so fun!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still do this! Granted, I'm in high school, but every note sheet has cubes on it.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 37 and was just doing it on Friday during a meeting... pretty much ALL of the "doodles" on this (like the "S")

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Avriel Schwartz
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to draw those all the time. So weird to see that it was a thing other kids did too...

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Julie Klein
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sill do this at 52. Covering a page with interconnected cubes.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do this! I'm in middle school and fill my notebooks with these. Especially math notebooks.

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Thomas Es Thomas
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always liked to make ten or twelve sided objects on paper, of varying shapes and cube them. Sometimes I'd draw whole cities.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do something similar for a living on CAD. Love it! More complex but love CAD modeling.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since the day I learned to draw this at school, I don't know why but I still do this when I get bored, mostly when I'm on the phone at work !

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i love foamy pencil grips and i buy mechanical pencils with grips but i cannot use them because when i write or draw i grab the very end of the pencil, and thats the only way i function

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I LOVED jump roping!! Double Dutch baby!! The one thing I was good at in school..... :D

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spent longer picking out a trapper keeper than clothes

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