Numbers and Letters (love 'em?)

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Did anyone here as a child associate letters of the alphabet with numbers, such as "a = 1", "b = 2", "c = 3", so on and so forth all the way to "z = 26"?

I did. I used to love adding different combinations in my head when I was sitting in kintergarden/1st grade bored as hell.

I love letters, and words. I do like numbers, but I'm terrible at math. I basically like anything that can show a pattern. I can become entranced by a tile floor by looking at the pattern of colors, which I'd number off in my head ie: 2 green, 1 white, 2 green 1 white. When I see a string of numbers I don't do well with memorizing it, but I automatically look for a pattern of some sort. I'll notice right away that there are 3 fives, ect...
When I was very young, maybe 6 or so, I used to spell every word that I heard in my head. I must've looked really spacey to everyone. lol I just loved the concept of language, and words. I used to play scrabble by myself, too.
My autie son loves letters, and numbers, too. He taught himself to read by sight. He went through a phase for about 8 mo where I had to spell everything to him. His breakfast, the cats name, my name..everything. It was mostly the same words everyday. It got a little frustrating at times. Whenever he meets someone he asks their name (it sounds as if he's demanding, because of his tone, and serious facial expression) and asks them to spell it. He also asks where they live, and what it's by. I think he makes a memory of a person with information, instead of other abstract forms. Or maybe he's gonna be an interrogator when he grows up.
He's also recently discovered that calendars have definite patterns that never change. He's enthralled with dates, and months. He goes over the entire months appointments with me everyday, several times a day.

Know the feeling. When I was 7, I started spelling out all spoken/seen words out in my head too. It was a little annoying for a while, because my brain couldn't keep up with the world around me, but then I adjusted. It's like having a scroll bar in my brain. Constantly. It still does it; I just am used to it.

I love numbers. I can remember social security numbers, license plates. I did notice for a while though when it came to phone numbers, the last 4 digits two numbers would be out of sequence. So for example, the last four digits of a phone number are 5523, sometimes my mind would jumble it up into 5253.

After realization of that though, I just made a practice of correcting that.

I remember phone numbers from places I lived at when I was 5 years old and from people I haven't seen or heard from in nearly 10 years. I'm probably not the only one here who does.

same. I've also had memories of things that happened when I was 6 months old. Nobody ever told me but I reminded them of things and then my sibling told me my age.

6 months? Wow...

I only remember back to when I was about 2.

6 months is amazing.

I used to count the syllables in my sentences when I talked and tried to end each one on a multiple of 5.

It went on for a couple of years, but I had to train myself to stop. I had enough problems communicating as it was!

Before I knew how to talk, I remember having actual thoughts. The thoughts were not very pleasant though.

I love letters, but now find them depressing.

My love of letters combined with my emphasis on the visual has led me to a love of typefaces/fonts. So letters as art. It breaks my heart when certain fonts are used, like that Microsoft cartoon font! There is nothing cute about that! One of the easiest ways to make me mad is when my students turn in essays typed in an ugly huge font, with weird spacing and huge gaps between sentences.

I was a spelling bee kid, and my husband wants our kid to do the same.

Well, since I love math, one could guess that I love dealing with numbers. As for letters, I'll deal with them if it doesn't involve the "deeper meaning" or non literal definitions.

I have no idea when I learned to read or write, but by the time I was in grade 1, I logged over a hundred kiddie books and won a medal at the end of the year for that. My teachers say I also read very well. It was probably also because I have good memory, and can remember new words that I might have had trouble learning to read before.