Do you keep seeing yourself as you used to be/were and not as you are? I did until I realized it's no longer true. Happen to you?

As a child I was a painfully shy loner who wanted to just be invisible. It actually shocks me to realize how far away I am today from that little girl. Her complete opposite. I also sometimes think of myself as overweight though I've been slender for over 40 years! Why do those long-ago no-longer-true images stay with us?