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E_thing
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| I was a really early reader and was reading 6th grade-level books in preschool. They didn't believe I could read though and I remember having to hide my book and pretend to sleep but really be reading during naptime. I continued at that rate of reading ahead, and started writing poetry (on the walls, actually) when I was four. When I was put in Catholic school (and skipped third grade in the process) my academic success came to a screeching halt. I've since left but I get my education pretty much from my own sources. My grades are really crappy but I'm a good writer, or so I've been told. |
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matrix
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Age: 18
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Location: between glitches
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Age 4--started working dad's MS-DOS system with onen monitor color-orange. Already reading, counting, despite how I didn't want to because of ADHD and the books sucked. I mean why look at giraffes and read dialog and people socializing when there are spaceship designs and mathematical drawings to delve into. IMO, this is another reason schools fail students shafted of their desired knowledge.
Age 8--sang backup with 20 other kids in a Celine Dion concert, now it's whoopdie-freakin-doo and over with.
Age 11--ahh, my first ream of GRAPH PAPER, THE ULTIMATE TALENT AND OBSESSION!!!!!!!!! At least at that time, I filled the thing with several comics, elaborate security devices, Legend of Zelda fan-created dungeon maps, and many others. An object of pure innocence.
Age 15--
I invaded the real world, and my talent, my machines, takes hiatus into heavier coursework. Then I became an unprecedented thing, fairly social. I am reminded of the last quotes of War of the Worlds spoken by Morgan Freeman in the movie. It made sense in my head, anyway:
Commentary: [voiceover] The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/quotes
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The_New_Writer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Early talents? |
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| Jaejoongfangirl wrote: | When I was in Kindergarden (about 4 years old) I could already read really well. When you guys were young, did you have any special achedemic or creative talents that were sort of out-of the ordinary? What were they? I want to hear stories.
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Well, there's no real story to this, but I learned to read when I was two. My first book was "Hop on Pop" by Doctor Suess. All my siblings so far have read from this book as their first book. And thats all there is to that story. |
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m91
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Joined: Nov 18, 2007
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Location: London, United Kingdom
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Ever since I was 7 my teacher noticed that I had an amazing ability for Maths. I've built on that, and I did an early GCSE in Statistics when I was 13 (Year 2004), and got a grade A*, the following year I got A* in GCSE Maths, and earlier this year, I got a grade A in Advanced Level Mathematics (That's A2, not AS).
I'm from England by the way.
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barber
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Location: buncrana co.donegal ireland
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| never had much look in school with the exeption of history and science more so history.i thought was good on computers until i try'd to do in collage where i discovered that i coul'd get a grasp of porgraming however i sill love history the last book i have read is "the art of was by sun tzu" this book dates from betweeen the 8th and 4th century bc it deals with tactic and is in soom ways as relevent today as it was then. |
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Mist
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I could always draw very well. When I was two years old, I could hold a pencil properly. Also, I had a very extended vocabulary, and possessed an excellent memory...still do, actually.
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Anubis
My name is "Trouble".
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Early reader, very good memory if I actually wanted to remember something.
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Juliusanime231
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| I drew really well when I was young, ever since I drew loads of drawings and I'm still drawing today and I'm improving! |
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DollyJupiter
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I too learned to read very early, and I was writing long, complex stories with narrative arc and advanced vocabulary in the second grade. I also memorized the names of all the reptiles and amphibians in North America from a field guide at around the same age.
I was never very good at music, though. Although I wish I was. I took piano lessons for eight years, and I still play, but without any particular inspiration or special talent. |
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| I did numbers in my head amazingly quick, I knew every number times every number from 1-15... like you could throw uh, 12x12, and I'd immediatly say 144. Of course now I'm in high school and that's all changed. But you know. |
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aspiebeauty87
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I read whole encloypedias when I was about 3. I've always was advanced for my age in the 4th grade or so I was reading stuff at a high school level
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dragonboy
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| i could speak fluently at 18 months, understood maths and nature at a young age and used to be extremely attached to nature. |
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dragonboy
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| i could read words and numbers at any angle, sideways, upside down and write upside down too |
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Riddick124
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| I don't really remember back then too well, but my mom has told me my kindergarten teacher used to tell her that I could be working on one thing and still pay attention to what she was saying at the same time, something no other kid could do then. I also had exceptional reading skills, reading harry potter 1-4 in either 1st or 2nd grade. |
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Nikky91
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Location: America
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I've always had a talent for writing and coming up with stories ever since I can remember. My mom says I'm just as good as any professional writer. |
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