I am the opposite, I don't remember much of anything. There is so much to my childhood that is blank, just a blank slate. I hear stories but don't know what's true and what's not.
But I can defitintely relate when you said you're mother used to say "you're just like your father." I hated that comment. That cut the deepest. How am I like my father? I don't drink and treat people like crap. I don't have children and then just say oh well I'm done with them, I'm over being the parent.