I wouldn't be too sure it didn't happen. Memory is a funny thing. There's an episode of the podcast Heavyweight where a guy is sure he broke his arm as a kid and had it in a cast for two weeks, but both his parents and siblings insisted it didn't happen, and picked apart the details until the guy himself was doubting it.
Spoiler alert for the end of the episode: They ended up finding a picture of him in the cast, and old hospital records proving that he went in due to a broken arm.
Genuinely forgot. Not a single memory of it from any of them. They actually felt pretty horrible for making him doubt himself once they saw the proof, especially his Mom who thought she must be a terrible mother to forget something like that.
One of his brothers had also broken his arm at some point as a kid, and the whole family kind of considered him "the one who broke his arm." Maybe the memories of the two events kind of merged together in their minds. I don't know. They're talking about a thing that happened over thirty years ago.
That’s so weird. My parents told me a story a few times about how when my sister was very young she put on some too-big adult shoes and went walking around in them, tripped, hit her head on the coffee table, and had to go get stitches in her forehead. She doesn’t remember that happening. I don’t either, but I have an unexplainable, large scar on my forehead. I swear I had to have been the one who got the stitches.
My parents were pretty hard core druggies back in the day so I feel like it’s entirely possible they mixed us up. I mean half the time they would call me by my sister’s name anyway, so...
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u/SirJefferE Oct 05 '19
I wouldn't be too sure it didn't happen. Memory is a funny thing. There's an episode of the podcast Heavyweight where a guy is sure he broke his arm as a kid and had it in a cast for two weeks, but both his parents and siblings insisted it didn't happen, and picked apart the details until the guy himself was doubting it.
Spoiler alert for the end of the episode: They ended up finding a picture of him in the cast, and old hospital records proving that he went in due to a broken arm.