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When memory changes languages

I started thinking in English about my childhood memories and now they feel like they happened to someone else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linguistic shifts in memory processing create psychological distance from one's own past experiences.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Language and identity — what your first language holds?”

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