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I don’t remember either: I have memories from when I must have been too little to have learned either, but that’s not really the same as remembering not being able too.

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The singers: Both sing well so it depends on the music. Both have nice jazz in their respective portfolios.

I remember my toddler solipsism and I'm sure I couldn't read back then.
I remember asking adults about particular letters.
I couldn't read handwriting of my parents until about second grade.

If you could choose any historical period to live, what would you choose and why?

I remember being picked up by my ponytail and spanked on my very first day of school (because I played with a toy meant for boys). I didn't tell my parents because I thought they would make me quit school and I would never learn to read. The idea of not learning how to read scared me more than being spanked or humiliated in front of my classmates.

I also remember having a Christmas catalogue and I didn't know how to read the toy names or write them on a list for my parents, so I just circled things I wanted. I think I cut or ripped some of them out, too.

If I could choose any period of time I'd pick the early 1800s in Yorkshire because I'm fascinated by the wool trade / Luddite rebellions, and by my family history.

Do you remember learning the alphabet?

For the most part, within my specific context, I like living in the 2020s better than any other era.

This is because my executive functioning sucks---and should I lose my driver's license, I can just print out a temporary license right away, and use it until my permanent license comes back.

In the 1990s and previously, I would have had to go back to the Department of Motor Vehicles, wait on line for the whole day, and THEN get my temporary license.

I don't remember NOT knowing the alphabet.

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I don’t remember learning the alphabet either: I can remember being in primary school and the letters being taught, and being frustrated because I knew them already and all the other kids were so slow
I must have been an insufferable little get

Do you remember learning to count?

I remember episodes of Sesame Street where they taught specific letters (The Letter of the Day). I liked the one for Capital I. Some construction guys were out in a woodlot and they randomly found a giant Capital I just sitting there, so they did some repairs to it. I think I already knew the alphabet but I loved the letter of the day. I remember figuring out how 'silent e' works to make a long vowel, and learning about changing 'y to ies' in plurals or conjugations.

I'm going to look for a YouTube of Capital I.

I don't remember learning to count. I do remember learning to count backward, though.

Do you remember learning subtraction? My teacher gave everyone a steel baking sheet with magnetic numbers. I forget how it helped. I was thinking about The Fonz while I was learning subtraction.

I must not have known how to count when I was a toddler in a stroller----but I might have known how to count even then. I don't remember NOT knowing how to count. It's possible that I didn't really care about counting when I was a toddler in a stroller, though it's also possible I already knew how to count.

I used to have trouble with "borrowing." I didn't master it for a while.

Did you feel a great desire, as a kid, to show everybody how "smart" you were?

No: I thought everyone else was being deliberately stupid for some mystifying reason until I got the results back from an iq test aged thirteen.

Do you remember learning long multiplication/division?

Huh -- I was sure it was in the woods!

I don't remember feeling exceptionally smart when I was young. I was belittled by my family because I liked reading, as opposed to walking about with books on my head (my grandmother was a model), or worrying about fashion, or being extroverted like my mother.

I do remember learning multiplication tables. It only took me about a day because I have synaesthesia, so the colour patterns of the numbers made sense. Long multiplication and division came easily and I got bored of repetitive exercises.

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I had trouble with both in the fourth grade. It was because I wasn't very good at handwriting, and of making columns, and of spacing in general. I got pretty good at both by 5-6th grade.

I knew my multiplication tables, up to 12, by third grade.

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I can’t remember being taught them, but I can remember the weekly tests in primary school.
I liked them, lining up all the component multiplications of, say, 6782 x 149 was very satisfying.

Did you play with the other kids at lunchtime, or just do your own thing ignoring them?

I always went home for lunch in early Primary. I walked by myself most of the time.

When I was about 12-13 I had some friends and we were allowed off school property so we would go smoke and be cool.(arrgghh)

By secondary school I hid in the library and didn't talk to anyone. I never used the school kitchen once.

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I liked playing the SPORT, and competing with other kids, better than actually playing with the other kids for social purposes. I was lousy at sports--but I always tried hard when I played them.

I liked to read, too---but I also enjoyed competing in sports, even though I was usually the last one picked on a team.

I still don't feel especially "social" when I'm involved in playing some sport.


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I tried playing with the other kids, but it never seemed to work: plus they were loud, bossy and always arguing with each other.
So I pretended I was a steam train and the football pitch markings were the rails

How old were you when you had your first crush?

I remember romping about the schoolyard pretending I was riding a horse with reins. I must have looked like a freak.

My first crush was a girl when I was about five. She could do the splits both ways. She lived across from me and she was really cute. I think I wanted to "be her" more so than having a crush. I worshipped her. She's the one who taught me the "y turns into ies" rule. She moved away and I was gutted. My first boy crush was a boy named Chris when I was about eight.

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Believe it or not....I was 5 years old. I had a crush on my babysitter. I felt the "butterflies."

My first "adult, sexual" crush was when I was in 8th grade. My very pretty English teacher inspired me to get 85's and 90's in English, rather than failing or almost failing it.

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