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   Manhunter808 said, 3 months ago

   MEEP! MEEP! Way to go, 440RoadRunner!
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   AshburnStadium said, 3 months ago

   @440RoadRunner

   I know the feeling. As a self-taught reader at age 3, I was reading at a college-age level by elementary school age. My school didn’t have the books that I needed to learn!
   Back in 1967, I surprised my mom at age 3 while we were riding around Warminster, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, by saying that the “M” in the Acme supermarket (now a sister to Albertsons) sign was missing. I also pointed out a street sign, not knowing that “Dr.” also meant “Drive,” saying, “Mom, there’s ‘Cheryl Doctor’.”
   Ironically, I would move to that very same street 21 years later, and I lived there for 18 years!
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   charlenelin1201 said, 3 months ago

   How true. No one ever cares, not my bosses for sure, if I read at whatever grade, how I scored in my history, math and so forth.
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   grahambhg said, 3 months ago

   i could read at a second grade level BEFORE entering kindergarten. My teachers were p.o.’d at my mom for doing their jobs.
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   Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago

   @440RoadRunner

   Same here. I did a book report on The Shining (my dad is a huge Stephen King fan) in 3rd grade. And on Dune in 2nd grade :) My teachers at least let me do my own thing through middle school when it came to reading.
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   MayKitten said, 3 months ago

   I was reading 12th grade when I entered the third grade. By the end of the first semester I was exasperating my new fifth grade teacher.

   The only problem with my accelerated academic lifestyle was: what job could I get with a PhD at seventeen?

   Any kid that reads third grade in the fourth grade is in trouble unless he catches up.
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   Teresa said, 3 months ago

   Well, I was at or below my grade level, until my grandmother took me to the library with her to get her weekly armeload of love stories (educational! they were about doctors and nurses!). She told me to find something I liked. I found Nancy Drew and Walter Farley’s ‘the Black Stallion’. Soon, as a 9th grader, I was reading at 11th grade level.
   
   After I joined the U.S.A.F., I became interested in Science Fiction, Asimov, and Fantasy, Piers Anthony.
   
   Too bad I never did anything with my higher reading level except entertain myself. But, it’s better than running up the credit card bills with makeup and shoes!
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   oldfiredog said, 3 months ago

   @AshburnStadium

   You sure that wasn’t the ACE hardware store?
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   rmacprivate said, 3 months ago

   One year our class HAD to read Great Expectations, no matter what level your reading skills were, we all reached the consensus that we would never read another book by Dickens.
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    Charles Smith said, 3 months ago

    It’s always inspiring to be in the company of such exceptional persons. Not that anyone above might have been exagerating a slight bit.
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    guswild said, 3 months ago

    I got you all beat. I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich before I even came down the chute. That is before I was born for those who don’t understand that.
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    RUBBER DUCKY said, 3 months ago

    i read a book…….once….
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    Nikonclicker said, 3 months ago

    I excel looking at pictures! Got big eyes!
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    JeepersCreepers said, 3 months ago

    Oh yeah? Well, when I was in kindergarten, Einstein asked for my help with his math in his relativity equations, so there!
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    whmIII said, 3 months ago

    @grahambhg

    Did they call their union rep???
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