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Twitter Users Are Posting Things We Haven’t Thought About Since Elementary School, But Will Instantly Remember (30 Pics)
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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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.
This is still to this day my favorite toy. It's a shame I can't find them anywhere now...
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!
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.
7's. You can't even find out if its divisible by 7 at a glance, unlike the other numbers
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I love the number 9 The result of any number multiplied by 9 when you add the individual numbers together = 9. or if a really big number if you add the individual numbers again and again each time until you get to a single number that will be 9 . even if the number you use to multiply by 9 is in the trillions. Try it ; )
Thanks for bringing this back up. 20 years down the toilet in therapy.
I always had to go left to right and then down. The kids that did it top to bottom and then right made my head hurt for some reason.
I never learned the 9's! I had a little pencil box that had a gizmo on top with a slider that gave answers to the multiplication tables. When there was a quiz, I'd hold it on my lap and use it! :-)
I always felt so smart doing these! I got almost all of them done and of those only a few wrong :)
I loved these sheets, I was always finished first, Teacher couldn't understand why I asked for more dheets.
My mom used flashcards to help me learn multiplication, and the promise (bribe) of a wheeloo as my reward.
When I took timed tests, I would also tap my feet really fast, and that made me feel less nervous... Until one day I tapped to loud and the teacher yelled at me.
i loved doing these. i was always one of the first to finish with 100% :) yay for being nerdy
The teacher would be like "Just do as many as you can" I don't know why that made the pressure even higher. I could never make it all the way to the end too
why is this anxiety? o_O anything up to 10's was easy, and up to 12's isn't all that bad
Looks like you’ll be living on a deserted island for the rest of your life then
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!
I LOVED jump roping!! Double Dutch baby!! The one thing I was good at in school..... :D
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This post makes me feel really old. Like farting cobwebs old! Only a few of these things were from my childhood and the rest is from my son's childhood LOL
You feel old....most of these were after my time. For me it was mimeographs (sniffing), carbon paper and typewriters....
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what about slap bracelets? I had those instead of those bracelet things, that were mentioned twice, btw...
Between gigs, I've done some elementary school subbing, and then you get to relive a bunch of it. But, much as I love the kids, you realize as an adult that there's a distinct smell of a bunch of kids together in a room, particularly after recess. And when some kid is being really obnoxious, you might realize how obnoxious you used to be, b/c you were that kid sometimes.
No RL Stine books or Scary Stories to Read in the Dark? Our librarian had wait lists for those
We need a whole other list. Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, The Black Stallion........Our favorite books and series
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Noticed one thing not on the list (and this was more of a girl thing obviously) does anyone remember the safety pins with all the beads on them? Or the barretts with the ribbon braided on them?
friendship pins. We used to put them on the bottom lace of our shoes.
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A lot of these are past my time, but I do remember a lot of them were around from 1974-1983, and then came high school... I was always so mad that I didn't get a proper lunchbox with a Thermos (I wanted the yellow Peanuts one) and had to use a paper bag, and buy milk in the cafeteria.
Those plastic lunch boxes with the Thermos in the lid and the big sticker on the front were the S**T!
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I can still smell the chalk dust that used to permeate might schools growing up.
I started first grade in 1958. Most of this stuff is well after my time.
Ahh, the halcyon days of talking a girl into consenting to digital sex, then running around and telling all your friend to, "smell my finger, dude!"
I can't relate to this list like I can the other one. I never went to school so......
This post made me finally remember the title of a YA novel series I read back in my teen years: "Max on Earth" by Marilyn Kaye, followed by "Max in Love" and "Max on Fire". I had no idea there were three more books in the series.
This post makes me feel really old. Like farting cobwebs old! Only a few of these things were from my childhood and the rest is from my son's childhood LOL
You feel old....most of these were after my time. For me it was mimeographs (sniffing), carbon paper and typewriters....
Load More Replies... what about slap bracelets? I had those instead of those bracelet things, that were mentioned twice, btw...
Between gigs, I've done some elementary school subbing, and then you get to relive a bunch of it. But, much as I love the kids, you realize as an adult that there's a distinct smell of a bunch of kids together in a room, particularly after recess. And when some kid is being really obnoxious, you might realize how obnoxious you used to be, b/c you were that kid sometimes.
No RL Stine books or Scary Stories to Read in the Dark? Our librarian had wait lists for those
We need a whole other list. Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, The Black Stallion........Our favorite books and series
Load More Replies... Noticed one thing not on the list (and this was more of a girl thing obviously) does anyone remember the safety pins with all the beads on them? Or the barretts with the ribbon braided on them?
friendship pins. We used to put them on the bottom lace of our shoes.
Load More Replies... A lot of these are past my time, but I do remember a lot of them were around from 1974-1983, and then came high school... I was always so mad that I didn't get a proper lunchbox with a Thermos (I wanted the yellow Peanuts one) and had to use a paper bag, and buy milk in the cafeteria.
Those plastic lunch boxes with the Thermos in the lid and the big sticker on the front were the S**T!
Load More Replies... I can still smell the chalk dust that used to permeate might schools growing up.
I started first grade in 1958. Most of this stuff is well after my time.
Ahh, the halcyon days of talking a girl into consenting to digital sex, then running around and telling all your friend to, "smell my finger, dude!"
I can't relate to this list like I can the other one. I never went to school so......
This post made me finally remember the title of a YA novel series I read back in my teen years: "Max on Earth" by Marilyn Kaye, followed by "Max in Love" and "Max on Fire". I had no idea there were three more books in the series.
