weird childhood

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Does "weird" imply negative?
If so I apologize, I actually had a wonderful childhood... I should have probably chosen "a-typical"

Weird doesn't always mean something negative. Weird can also mean interesting, unique, or simply different. There is good weird.

Then I meant good weird thank you.

I know the movie Mathilda too, but it's too intense emotionally

Being able to read past your age level definitely qualifies as "good weird"---I had similar experiences in elementary school (nothing involving the reproductive system, though), with the caveat that I also sucked at anything math-related. ><

Oh, I see. I just really love that movie, and you reminded me of Matilda-who was good weird

From what you told I would say it's quite likelly you're gifted.

Some I can thinik of, In seinor kindergarden they wanted to push me up to Grade 1 a year early, my drawings were far more detailed then the other kids, I recall knowing the alphabit and my numbers and most of the other school work prior to attending school, just failed the social parts. I appearently took my childproof toys apart to see how they worked. When I was 1 I was placed at a piano and played properly one finger one key with 2 hands insted of the usual one year old full fist banging and destruction. Grade 2-3 7-8 I was all consumed and knowageable on WW2 air battles of all things. I was a very werid kid by meny accounts.

Honestly Katore you sound very very gifted, I was "learning disabiled" in meny subjects as it turned out later yet as a young child I appeared to be considered gifted.

I will do some research, still if I get the concept right "gifted" means only the person understands things quicker, right?

No, not just things quicker, that really doesn't have much to do with it.

Here's a link that talks about gifted children:
http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=574

Talking about quick learning it doesn't define the speed though.
Is it like I read = I know versus I read many times = I know?

i'm gifted at playing Runescape. I killed so many noobs in the wildy I even killed Zezima once

When I think of someone who is gifted, I think of someone who is able to comprehend things well beyond what most people do, or that they are very capable of accomplishing something beyond their years. To be gifted is like a natural talent for something/knowledge about something beyond what is average for people. In elementary school I was one of the first ones to understand fractions in math, but I'm no better at fractions than my peers were who understood it later than me. I'm not gifted.

If you were able to read and comprehend reproduction at age 4 (knowledge well beyond your years), and be able to read and comprehend adult books as a child, than I say you are very intelligent. I would say you were/are gifted. Heck, at age 4 I was reading Dr. Seuss.

I see what you mean... well, I guess I will never know

At the age of 3 with my magnetic letters I could write words also complex ones, at the age of 4 we have evidence that I knew how the stages of pregnancy worked basing my knowledge on a maternity magazine I had stolen my mom to the point of explaining the basics to a 9 years old girl. The story goes like

"See? these are the monsters!" (pointing at pictures of phoetuses on the magazine
"here it sais phoetus, and phoetus is the monsters. The monsters grow big and become a child. 9 months later the child comes out from here"
(when I said "9 months later" I apparently pointed first to the first ecography and then to the last baby picture in the womb )

which was my way of explaining her the first part of the answer to the question in her homework "what is the difference between mammals and oviparous?" at which point I went to get another magazine from my room with snakes on it and the girl's mom stopped me by yelling at her like crazy because "even a 4 years old knows!"

But there is no evidence I read about that, only thing I know is nobody had told me.
A few weeks earlier instead I had answered another question for the same girl, her mom was asking her the names of bee houses and I promptly answered "hive!", mom asked at the kindergarden if we had talked about bees and hives but the answer was no.
No one knows where I got my knowledge from and how I even got access to it.

Only thing adressing to me being able to read before school is that the first day in school I had read a new school mate's name (for privacy I will make up one similar but not give the right one) say "Maria Angelina Santanché" and I found in the telephon book a lady who's name was Santanché Maria Angelina and wanted to call her because I liked the girl. Okay, the town was wrong and it wasn't her still I found it before I was tought reading

I used to flip through my mother's obstetrics textbook when she was in nursing school when I was 4 years old. I don't remember learning to read. It was like I always knew.

Oh, another thing I now know for sure is, and here I quote-translate mom last night, that

"at 17 months you were able to talk like a little adult"

which she told me because I informed her about this topic

^^ sweet! It's likely you were resolving elektra's complex with that also!