Is extremely early memory associated with Autism?

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I can remember being in my walker, being bathed in the kitchen sink and being in my crib. I remember the fear I felt being alone in my crib in the dark with my parents in the next room and crying, yelling "daddy" over and over again. I remember how I felt each time I woke up alone in that dark room. I remember wondering about the toy on the tray of my walker and wondering about the gas stove I was near. I remember enjoying the baths, but being afraid at first when my mother lowered me into the water. I don't just remember the visuals, but the internals as well, if that makes sense.

Remember riding in the baby seat on the back of my dad's bicycle, which reportedly occurred when I was one.

Earliest I can remember was being up in high chairs, eatin' something messy. Remember a place at a restaraunt, too, that had high chairs for little kids. Remember a few people and places and events... some of which never happened (apparently had an early EARLY dream I remembered vividly), and others which I just can't seem to convey accurately enough to get where they are from. I remember just about all of my preschool life, and a little bit before. However, I tend to not be able to just bring up random memories on the spot. I generally only remember something if something triggers the memory. i become nostalgic quite often.

The earliest memory I can definately recall is of being at a busy international airport with my parents. My Mom told me I was around a year old at that time. I remember the confusing rush and feel about the place, pretty vividly.
It's possible I have other earlier memories, but because of my immediate family moving around SOOOOO MUCH, I am unsure about others. (My Dad was in the Army, but my Mom just loved to move. LOVED to move!)
Well, if earlier memories are due to Autism, I guess I fit!

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

I don't remember any birthdays under the age of 10, but I can sort of remember all of my birthdays from 10 onwards (not completely, but I can sort of get a memory of the atmosphere of my birthdays, if that makes sense).

I can vaguely remember by 6th birthday, but I don't remember what I got. I don't remember any birthdays when I was a baby at all. I wish I did, but I really don't.

I've got some videos what my uncle taped of me and my cousins when we were all babies and toddlers, and one of them was on a bouncy-castle (it was for one of my cousin's birthday, not mine). If I really concentrate hard, I can just about remember me sitting on the bouncy-castle with my teddy (I was 2 at the time), but I can remember that only. I don't remember the rest of the day, even when I watched it on the video.

My babyhood days seemed a big blur what just whizzed past. It seemed like those days only lasted about 5 minutes.

I have some early memories, too. I think I might be able to remember what life was like in the womb. I remember looking up and seeing light through the membrane and wondering what it was. I couldn't figure it out and was intensely curious. I can also remember obsessing on certain objects while in my crib, lying or standing when older. I remember other things too, too personal to put here.

I had many early memoryes

about 9 months old - i was walking in my baby-walker in my old apartment. In this case, i'm surprised when today i hear doctors to say that childrens have bad wiewing. My sight was fine.
Another about 9 months old - I was in Kichen and my mom pronnced those words: 'Carne Trita', and i knew what she was talking about
1 years old - Me walking from bed of my marents to my crib
Age 2 - My birthday, when i received a mixer. The funny thing is that the mixer was for adults XD
Age 2 - My dad asked me 'look into my eyes' and i failed, then he asked me 'look my ear' and i failed again. I sat on the table in kichen.
Age 2 or 3 - When i was in a place called 'Terracina' in south Italy with my parents and my aunt, I played every day with peelings of watermelons.
Age 2 or 3 - i was drawing an human figure. Head, legs and harms. I found it horrible (I was almost scared), and from that day i started to draw people with head, torso, harms and legs. My mom has said that i almost never drew people with head, harms and legs.
Age 2 or 3 - Me and my parents in Monza, watching a car race
Age 2 or 3 - I was in San Remo in a toy shop with my parents and my aunt. My parents have buy for me an iron panel with all letters of alphabet with magnets.
Age 3 - in kindergarden, for first time i noticed that male and females were different. Anyway i could not tell what the difference was. I just believed that some kids were made in a way and other in another way
Age 3 - I started to being aware from the difference between me and others. I was always wondered what make me different, so i observed other kid's behaviour and tried to imitate others. But i failed. (for adult i had not interest in words, instead i was studiyng whatever i could see)
Age 3 - I was colouring a picture of an arlecchino, and i wondered why i could not be precise at colouring. I had not a good coordination with my hand

There are many others but i was 4, 5, 6 etc, anyway all that i remember make me think that psychologist write loads of stupid things about children. I can not relate with what they write (and i talk about books that are made for help new mothers

My very first memory from this life is too early to be something more than a mere delusion on my part (though I did read about a research that proved that babies sometimes can dream about how they were born and they can make this mistake that they think the memory of the dream is their actual memory) - I remember a row of baby cribs and especially one, over which I was hovering - someone must have been carrying me. If it was real, it would mean these were the first days of my life, in the hospital I was born in.

I have also a single memory of myself on the train to Warsaw, our capital city. I was less than just a year old. My mom was showing me a statue through the window.

I remember the day I moved out of my crib and into a "big bed" with a side railing, some that have to be about potty training and very vivid memories from when I went to the hospital to get my adenoids and tonsils removed at 2 and a half. My brother was bouncing a basketball while I was sitting on the front porch steps waiting to go to the hospital. I was very upset that they put me in a crib because I'd been in a big bed for a long time. They also put a screen over it at night, which made me very upset. One other very vivid memory is being brought to my brothers kindergarten class for some reason - my mother couldn't take care of me at home, or something - and an easel that a little girl was painting at. I wanted to paint at it, too. My brother is 3 years older than me, so I must have been 2. There are a lot of pre nursery school memories, especially of riding in the car. One in particular was a conversation I had with my mom who was laughing at me because I couldn't say "r's" and called the car a cow.

I've also been told that memories before 5 or 6 were not possible. Interesting that this may be related to autism.

Several people in my family have told me that in the past. They were questioning my memories. I do think that memories before 3 are pretty rare because verbal thinking supercedes visual thinking in most people. Aspies who are visual thinkers may retain more.

Well I have the occasional memory which goes back to my early childhood,

I can recall the 1979 firefighter's strike in the UK, I can also recall the day I went with a grandparent to collect my mother from the hospital after she gave birth to one of my younger siblings. I can recall being told not to feed plastic nuts to my younger brother or sister (my mum said it would kill them). I also recall the time at the age of about 4 or 5 when my mother tried to teach me to write (that did not work out well). I also have a memory of my grandmother's cat in her old house before she moved into a flat (she left the cat with a friend who lived in the same street as her old house).

I can recall the approximate layout of my first primary school, it was demolished in the late 1970s. I can recall the location of my classroom in the new building and the day we were taken to the park while the flooring was done in our classroom.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I think early memories must be an autistic thing considering all the resposes here. I remember turning two so...yeah, proabably.

I think so. I remember things from when I was two.

I remember lying in the cradle and my mother looking down on me and she was giving me cough syrup with the spoon and she also said that if i won't sleep calmly tonight i'll dream the fist and then she showed me her fist.
I remember some other night in that cradle when i puked on my pillow.
I also remember sitting on the rug and looking at my fingers, and then i said that i'm already three years old!
And I remember my mother feeding me mashed potato with the spoon, and looking at my red baby overall with the rooster portrayed on it while walking with my mom on some road and so on.