The kind of personal identity that rests on narrative and memory, on narrativised memory and remembered narrative is a product of maturity. It begins when it becomes developmentally possible and becomes more crystalised and heavier with age until at least it begins to crumble and disintegrate under its own weight. It is a linguistic thicket, a dedicated neural large language model and ultimately has nothing to do with delf identity at all. It is founded upon preverbal intensities which can only seem to the mind to be analogues of non-verbal sensory experiences, synaesthesic patterns of colour, sound, smell, touch etc. Its nodes are linked in strange non-linear ways. As you progress past the artificial socially mediated forms of identity the centre of gravity of identity shifts back in time towards the moment of birth and beyond.