Nah, it's just shitty memory. I have had quite the happy childhood, actually.
I don't find myself reminiscing a lot and in the rare cases I do, there are quite some gaps. Even in more recent times. If I really try to dig, maybe it comes back, but I assume it's "use it or lose it".
I've already forgotten most of my childhood and I'm only around 30. So I'd assume, yes.
I assumed as much, but had hoped for a less disgusting reason.
Why would you protest this change? 0.015% is still insane and it takes nothing away from the ones who already made it.
I'm really glad I wasn't born into one of the hyper competitive Asian education systems, but on the other hand, I'm not sure the degrading western education systems I was born in are better. A happy middle ground would be nice.
Some games I replay a lot, but always on a fresh save. I think I've finished Dark Souls about 10 times without ever touching NG+.
Notable exceptions are:
I couldn't name a single street in the city I've been born in except the ones I lived in. I've learned to navigate the city before I could read and never bothered to read street names thereafter.
The same goes for every other city, my mental map of cities includes almost no street names. Maybe that's because I don't use cars at all, after all I could name bus stations and such (some of which are named after streets, I guess, but I've still got no idea about how they connect or even which street of an intersection actually has the name).
Who cares? Just like most things your average programmer relies on, they are written by smarter or at least more specialised people to make your job easier. They have learned to write memory-safe code so you don't have to.
That approach may work for journalism and such, with a single person collecting primary sources and verifying them before writing an article. However, it does not work on the internet.
Instead of one person verifying the claim and adding further sources in an article, every single reader would have to do it. And anyone using the internet would have to do so hundreds of times every day. Nobody does that. It only makes sense to shift the burden of further proof onto the primary source or disregard it.
It's just too easy to lie about them. They allegedly had primary sources for "They are eating the dogs".
Trusting your common sense to filter these just doesn't work, asking for a better source is never wrong.
Fits in nicely with the recent article about conservative men having trouble dating. Maybe don't antagonize women?
So, what's your point? Other people might have a lot more boring childhood anecdotes to tell, but it's not like I'm suffering in any kind. I still remember people or useful skill - the stuff I do use.
As an added benefit of growing up quite poor, I probably just had less unique experiences I actually could recall. Like, I've been on three travel vacations overall. Kinda like those COVID years blurred together for most people.