pet peeve: "repressed memories aren't a real thing"
when I was 18, I suddenly remembered *the entire third grade*
what do you want me to call that???
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repressed memories exist but it is incredibly hard (impossible?) to differentiate them from fabricated memories, so culturally we decided we had to pick a side, and "accept all self-reports of memories" had more horrific and obviously-false stuff attached to it
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worth mentioning that thereâs a big difference between âwe decided this type of evidence shouldnât be admissible in courtâ and âyou should not, personally, pay any attention to your own repressed memoriesâ
I think one of Bessel van der Kolk's points was that genuine trauma memories are of a qualitatively different nature than ordinary biographical memories, and that all of the studies on fabricated memories just create ordinary memories.
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(Though this also doesn't prove that it *is* impossible to fabricate genuine trauma memories, we just can't ethically do that experimen so nobody has.)
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and yet we use eyewitness testimony :D
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