I was around 3 or 4 years old in this earliest memory. Perhaps one can categorize the circumstance I was in as an extraordinary one. It was at my aunt's wedding and I remember being sad to leave the reception because of my attachment to her.
I feel like I am continuous with that person and that we are one and the same person, though at different developmental stages. All the memories from the past flow together and are continuous with the ones over time until the present. Though I feel continuous with that person, I feel as if this memory at 3 or 4 years is very distant in the past and is one of the few memories I remember from that age.
I'm really interested in how you describe your link to your past self. I feel a very similar connection with my memories in that I can often track how I became who I am today through my memories. I too also have very few memories of myself at that age, through I feel like that is because not many extraordinary events happened to me back then.
