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> Where is this? I've been a hobbyist writer since I was 3 and really want to get all my stuff digitized. You learned to write when you were 3?
by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Where is this? I've been a hobbyist writer since I was 3 and really want to get all my stuff digitized.
You learned to write when you were 3?
- macintux 9y agoI was reading to my kindergarten class when I was 4, self-taught (lots of Sesame Street and Electric Company), and I am not remotely brilliant. I can certainly believe someone writing at 3, although it's pretty damned impressive.
- macintux 9y agoWhoops, I forgot, I could write at 3. My aunt loves to tell the story of how she got me to finally talk by making me ask for a Coke, after discovering I could read and write.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoEarly but not totally implausible. My mother taught me to read when I was four and I could write before I was five. It was a pain at school where I had to endure a couple of years of reading simple John and Jane books while everyone else was catching up. Unfortunately, while I could write, I never developed the technical skill of writing legibly and fast so even I have difficulty in deciphering quite a lot of my writing. More than thirty five years of using computers to create documents hasn't improved things either.
- ConceptJunkie 9y agoWhen one of our kids was around 3, we would write down the stories that he would dictate, which he would then illustrate. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad we still have those.
- komali2 9y agoHaha, of course it wasn't any good! But yes I was reading (terribly) and "writing" (awfully) at age 3. I trade a remarkably early start in literacy for literally 0 math skills.