childhood memory

I'm trying to find out at what age do kids from "normal" families start remembering their childhood and at what age do kids from alcoholic families start remebering their childhood.

[rligh09]

HMMM very interesting my family was a little of both. My paretns drank but we very in the middle class so it was sorta ok yah know, it was the 80's. My earliest memories are of whe I was about 5 but I think thats a little late. My friends dad was an alcoholic and she has memories at about the age of 4 or so. She can remember sitting around while her dad and his friends smoked pot and played guitar. My biological wa a raging drunk left my mom for days without food or money took the car...... She left him when I was 2, I dont remember any of it. She said she came hoem one day and he was passed out and I was screaming in my crib, I guess I was about 1 1/2 I dont remember. My dad adopted me when I was about 3 and I dont remember any of that either. Maybe I blocked it all, maybe I fried my brain a little I did dabble in LSD but now I am relatively normal livin' the life of the middle class, PTA, Girl scouts, t-ball. Mild vicodin addiction though haha guess its a nature versus nurture case.

[Charetti]

I dont remember much before 12!  I only seem to recall the special events but that might be because there are pictures.  And like rligh09 I might of burned out some brain cells in the 70s.

[martikadragoon]

Ya know, that's a great question. From what I know my husband was raised by a man who had some sort of alcaholism (alcoholism) issues (he's told me he remembers the man telling him to get him a beer ALOT).... And the man was verbally/phsically abusive to hubby's mom (they never were married and the man wasn't his dad).

My husband doesn't have any childhood memories really.... I'll ask him about when he was 10 or 11 and he won't really remember ANYTHING. We've been together 7 years, and been through ALOT (we have a son w/special needs born when we were 21) and he's a wonderful daddy and husband so it's not a matter of being unwilling to talk to me, but he still doesn't remember much from his childhood. his sister who's my mom's age had to fill in alot of gaps for me about his early childhood (age 5 and under mainly)

I however have memories from as far back as two. I delt with some physical abuse (punishments taken too far mainly) but I can still remember things about elementary school and stuff. There was no alcaholism (alcoholism) or drug abuse in my family til my mom married my stepfather and they got in a car wreck (basically causing him to relapse onto pharmaceutical drugs)