<p>I still don’t read :(. All the text I yearn to understand is fed the through a speech synthesizer a few times. But I listen very well as you might imagine, which has its upsides.</p>
<p>also all the text i write is synthesized too (from my voice), which might account for the incomplete title (I have a tendency to trail off when I’m talking).</p>
<p>Interesting, why don’t you read? Are you blind or something?</p>
<p>I started reading very early apparently, I can’t remember when I started reading.</p>
<p>I began reading at age two, which is why I eventually was pushed forward a grade–All the kindergarten teacher taught was reading.</p>
<p>^^, omg, you started reading before you were even forming long-term memories. SO lucky.</p>
<p>And horsey was already forming them at age 2! (unless someone told her she read at age 2, in which case I would have a fair amount of suspicions).</p>
<p>I actually started reading maybe at the age of 6. So I do read. But it’s probably qualitatively different than your reading.</p>
<p>Oh interesting, I wonder how so?
You probably remember not being able to read…what was it like? Could you interact with computers? Read signs? What did you do with your time?</p>
<p>I once met a girl who didn’t read until the 7th grade. She was always uppity about intelligence and thought people thought she was dumb, which I guess I can understand, but it meant we didn’t get along well.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t remember not being able to read signs or things like that. But you probably just don’t really pay attention to what you don’t understand. Unless you are really interested in the patterns of small lines, or something, but I wasn’t.</p>
<p>I do remember being able to read phonetically, but poorly. Like before I recognized words rapidly. When I tried to read advanced things the sounds would just not turn into words that I could understand.</p>
<p>I played a lot of imaginary games. I created a <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm</a> with my brother that evolved for about 8 years until it got too hard to sustain due to our brain developments.</p>
<p>Oh, I see. I don’t think I was ever taught phonics or anything.</p>
<p>In first grade I took up reading the 12 page picture books but from 2nd-4th I only pretended to read; I would bring in Harry Potter books and just wait a minute or two and turn the page xD In 5th I actually started.</p>
<p>Yeah, many people seem to bypass the stage of sounding words out, or go through it very fast. You probably weren’t taught it because it wasn’t necessary :p.</p>
<p>I started reading when I was either four or five- not sure. I do know that I was able to read the first Harry Potter book when it came out in first grade.</p>
<p>I learned how to read my first language when I was around 5. However, I learned how to read English when I was around 7 or 8.</p>
<p>What was your first language?</p>
<p>@woof Korean</p>
<p>I don’t remember when I first began reading. I always would though. I would read books about dinosaurs but these were very in-depth and gave long explanations of what they did. I remember in elementary school we had to take reading exams/quizzes and my teacher once said I read at a 10th grade level. Now I’m in tenth grade so I wonder what level I read at…</p>
<p>I learned how to read shortly after turning 4. I really can’t imagine what it would be like NOT to read. Growing up I had no friends so I did nothing but read. Seriously, I read thousands upon thousands of books. I want to be a novelist someday :D</p>
<p>I learned how to read when I was 3 and was all excited because I could do it and then the letters actually MEANT something. :P</p>
<p>I learned in the womb.</p>
<p>Not sure when exactly, but by the time I went to kindergarten I was a pretty proficient reader and in first grade I was at the highest reading level (we had a series of leveled books) for so long that I was allowed to start reading whatever I liked.</p>
<p>I could read at 4. I started reading more complicated books by kindergarten, like a children’s encyclopedia that was a favorite of mine.</p>
<p>I started to read late in first grade. My Parents were never concerned about reading. They wanted me to have fun by doing fun activities. I would e just a kid finding my own ways to have fun. I would play outside, play house, pretend to cook with fake food, build legos, and so on. However over time I started to sit with cat in the hat and figured it out myself in first grade, from that point forward I went from the lowest reading group to the highest. I read Harry potter in third grade.
I don’t think how early you learn truly has significance because if you don’t learn to read you’re probably strengthening other skills that will be so much more important like creativity and social skills. From my hs class those who learned to read later are more likely to succeed.</p>