You were adopted? How old were you? Did your parents die, or did they just not want you? I don't think it's weird to not remember your childhood, though. Lots of people don't, right? It's common! But I know what you mean; it's like looking at pictures, you know it happened because there's proof, or because someone told you, but it doesn't make you remember it!

[Apparently, he'd gotten Maverick to talk about himself somehow, so mission accomplished inadvertently.]