[paulg]

mikeh, on Jun 30 2010, 06:58 PM, said:

I have almost no memories before age 5, and very few before 6 or 7...and don't think I ever did...that is, I remember never having memories, as opposed to losing them as I got older. But, my parents told me I was reading the newspaper when I was 3 years old. I don't think they meant that I was discussing matters of importance or that I understood much of what I was reading, but I could read out the words...or most of them, anyway.

I do know that I was reading books from the adult part of the local library when I was 8...I remember a librarian trying to persuade me to put the books back. My tastes then were pretty basic: Alistair MacLean, Neil Shute, and the like.

Easier to quote than write the same again. Eerily similar

[barmar]

I'm visiting my mother this weekend, so I asked her when I started reading. Apparently my memory of my preschool years is faulty, too, because she says I was reading in nursery school.

On the other hand, I still remember the name of my nursery school: Miss Sue's.

Maybe kindergarten was when I learned to write using ITA.

[zasanya]

We are all geniuses till the age of five.-Oscar Wilde

[barmar]

There's an article in this month's Scientific American that seems to support Wilde's statement.

[pdmunro]

I learnt to read at about 7. Didn't go to school till I was 6: I didn't want to go to preschool when I was 5 - I much preferred going shopping with mum in our small country town store. Once I learnt to read, my parents had the pleasure of my presence early in the morning, balanced on the side of their bed and reading to them. Of course, I also learnt to read in Latin about that time: I was the altar boy and the Irish immigrant priest need someone to holler out the Latin responses.

[MarkDean]

I still have trouble reading sometimes. Especially jdonn posts: is he serious or being sarcastic?

[Gerardo]

4, reading metro stations. Had trouble with the RR (or R at start of the word), for a while, though.