@XOIIO Interesting. And, you don’t remember your fifth grade teacher? Or your third grade one? The way @wundayatta described memories of early childhood is how most people remember childhood. It actually is moments of memory not a long string of days and days and years of memories. He also described a false memory, his a more benign one of which foot had an injury. Be careful of false memories, if you choose to see a therapist it is amazing how destructive they can be in placing memories in your head. Therapists can be very good too of course. I had one appointment with a therapist who seemed hell bent on wanting me to believe I was sexully traumatized by my father when I was a child, which is absolutely absurd. I was there because I was having a lot of medical GYN medical problems, which affected my sex life, but I had been sexually active for 8 years already with no trouble, there was no reason to try and insist I had some sort of hang up about sex because of my past. Needless to say I saw her once and never again.
I have a few friends who went to therapists where the therapists were big on repressed memories and they have become angry sad people who seemed to me all worked up about memories that I don’t even think are bad enough to cause such an intense trauma that they have cut off from their families. I hate to say not bad enough, because for them it is very traumatic, and I empathasize with that feeling, but I also think if the matter had been framed differently when recalling it in therapy it would not have destroyed their life so much. These incidents I speak of are not extreme abuse or sexual molestation or rape or anything so extreme that we all would agree are unfathomable for our children to endure. A therapist who helps you recall should not be pointing you in the direction of abuse, but just in the direction of memory, how you felt about it then and how to view it from an adult perspective also. Staying in the childhood emotion can be a bad thing sometimes.
Maybe you just had a regular, not very eventful young childhood so nothing sticks out? Are you an only child? Is there any indication something bad may have happened? Or, something big like you were adopted at age 8? Although 8th grade is something like 13 years old. Do you remember going through puberty? Your body changing? There may have been one huge event that put your brain into a new chapter and all the old stuff is closed off.
I think ask your parents if they are approachable people. Ask them why they might guess you don’t remember. Maybe they will tell you a story of what happened to you in 8th grade that you don’t expect. That is if you are curious and willing to know,
Just my opinion, I am not an expert of any sort.