What are some of your earliest recollections of gender differences?

I know it was before I started school. So before the age of five. I remember having a little bit of concern (just a little) about telling the difference between a girl and a boy with only the differences in the way we dress to go on. But it was fine. I was too young to realize that as humans - even very young ones - we are exceptionally adept at recognizing small personality details even in other young children that usually tell us either boy or girl, because I never had any problem making that determination (until I got older and lived in a city, LOL).

As a baby boy, born & brought up in a huge family, with two male cousins & two female cousins[ we differ only by a few days or weeks], under the same roof, I had a curiosity to 'see ' them bathing, & was keen to observe the physical differences. Only one I could make out; & am sure, my contemporary cousin brothers & sisters also were of the same curiosity. One of them even once asked, when a new baby was brought to our house: pl. check up male or female ! .we were hardly 30 months old & could express well in our mother tongue.

Of the five of us , only four are alive today, & even now the guy who asked that Q remembers the incident, while another female in the younger generation had dared to look at the pubic area, very innocently. Even last year, we recollected the incidents of our younger age, most of them are not related gender.

But the shyness comes when we become mature- we five[ we are 65yrs now]plus the other fifteen or so [ aged +2, -4, -6, -8, all used to bathe in the same huge pond simultaneously.I do not recollect any solid questioning or answering at that period !

It is hoped you expected this type of answer only !. I was born in a family containing seven girls, one son, each[except one girl] having, two to six kids, so altogether ~ thirty were born & brought up in the same house, as if siblings. All got the same impartial treatment from all, w/o any bias. Luckily, my mum & the seven aunties were impartial at least to our assessment abilities.