I bet a lot of freepers learned how to read early.
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While I suspect that most FReepers are very smart, I know that the average child is just incapable of reading at 4. He can be extremely bright, but the brain just isn’t properly organized yet for reading. You were in a special group.
I was 6 or 7 when I learned to read. So not remarkable, but when I was 8 we moved in to a place right next to the library. In the summer when it would rain, I would sit in there reading the reference books that were not allowed to be checked out. In the kid section at first. By 12 I was reading adult books.
I have to admit. I think you're both special.
Yeah, the wingnut lone wolf group...
the average child is just incapable of reading at 4. He can be extremely bright, but the brain just isn’t properly organized yet for reading. You were in a special group.
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Average today or average for 70+ years ago?
2&3-year-olds today operate tablets just fine because they watch adults do it and copy them. Back in the day, our parents read to us. We watched, linked sounds to shapes and maybe it was memorization at first, but at some point, relationships clicked and we could decipher brand-new material.
I read at 4, in 1947. I read at an adult level by age 8. I read and write quickly with high comprehension, as long as the subject matter isn’t technical or mathematical. And by mathematics, I do mean arithmetic. Thank God for calculators.