* Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> [Jan 25. 2014 18:14]:
P.S.: does anyone know anybody who recollects asking for their own name? Here is my story: Got aware that I got a name. Asked my mother what it was, but immediately forgot. Asked again, wishing to be able to recall it, but still forgot after a few minutes. Getting annoyed with myself for having forgotten. Asked again, then repeated it over and over to myself. Remembered it from there, success!
--this is quite impressive memory.
Not sure; my memory never was very good. That I still can remember this was most certainly caused by the profound excitement of realizing "There is a word for me!"
"Infantile amnesia" afflicts most (all?) people preventing any event-memory before age of about 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
Interesting! I have no recollection before that event which I could put in coherent sentences (hmmm, very painfully falling down stairs, comic-style, but that could have been later).
There are occasionally those whose claim to remember back much further, but it is tough for them to prove it if so...
In personal conversations people simply doubted my story (I am not going to repeat their bone-headed "reasons"). My own mother does not recollect it (even after I described as detailed as it gets, including the exact place). Btw. (thanks for asking), pronunciation in English goes by reading "Yerk" aloud ('Y', not 'J', thanks again), try to make it slightly towards "York". And, you guessed right, it is one of the variations of George. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(given_name)
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Best regards, Jörg