How old were you when you first started reading?

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I was 2. It was a book about cars

I started school at aged 4 but I couldnt read till I was 8 but I went straight to having a reading age of 12 so I dont think it matters. My daughter was the same.

In the text books it says a lot of aspies dont read till over 8 as we get a change in our neurology at that point.

my sister read at 3 though

I remember reading those Goosebumps books at 8. I had very poor comprehension. My comprehension has only become better recently. I'm still behind a lot of people my age, but I've learned to live with it.

But...won't you get one person that reads the whole thing?

That's funny, as I saw a number that said just the opposite. And 8yo is generally when things slow down. Most scientists now DO consider that to be about the 2nd most extreme period of pruning. The three biggest are apparently 2,8, and 13. The first one obviously explains CDD. USUALLY things are relatively controlled. If it gets out of hand, you have CDD. The one at 8 explains what a number of people here and elsewhere mentioned.

At least in the US, I think schools USED to be expected to teach reading in FIRST grade. THEN, it was 3rd(8 years of age). NOW, there doesn't seem to be ANY expectation. Maybe THAT is why so many cluster around 6 and 8. 3 is about when the average kid can be expected to really notice that reading exists, and is often when nursery school starts. Kindergarten starts at 5, maybe 4. Of course, that is based on the U.S. school system over the past 50 years. England is likely to be a bit different. Other parts of the UK are different.

Nine or ten, but I started out WAY AHEAD. (Like, twelfth grade level.)

i was 3. my mother says when i was 2, she saw me reading the newspapers, but i don't know. all i know is i never remember having to be taught to read; i just always knew. plus i never went to pre-school or kindergarten, just straight into 1st grade, and don't remember being "taught" there.

i do know that i started reading by picking up my older brother's Peanuts books, which also developed my vocabulary and humor well beyond that of most other children, to whom i could not relate. i expected other kids to speak and act like little adults, actually. thank god for charles schultz because no one else would have cared.

I was about 7 or 8. But as soon as I started reading, I quickly caught up with everyone and actually starting reading very complex stuff beyond what my peers were reading. It was strange- one day, I could barely read or write my own name or even the word "cat", and then the next day, I was reading stuff beyond my years.

It was strange because my sister, by contrast, was very advanced and pretty much taught herself how to read (she was about 18 months old when she managed to identify words- I'm not joking! She was!).

She had a reading level of 10 when she was 4 or 5.

Now, I read perfectly well, but my basic maths skills are almost non-existant, heheh. I guess that's why I got into art; I couldn't read, or do maths or understand people but my eyes worked just fine!

I would normally read fiction and non-fiction but the fiction I read was usually horror or sci-fi (in other words, clear storyline, clear characterisation, focusses mostly on plot and not so much on characterisation). I would have never read a drama because I wouldn't have understood the different quirks of the characters. Non-fiction was just for light reading- usually just encyclopaedia's or anything like that.

my earlist memory of reading was at my brothers birth... must of been aged 3 and at aged 7 i was reading my fathers science books.. including a brief history of time by hawking though don't remember much of it nor i do i think i understood much of it.

Let me put it this way...I was in high school, and kids were still playing a kiddy game called popcorn that I had never even heard of before. I was reading at a 12th grade level in 3rd grade while in 12th grade, it seemed like everyone else was reading at a 3rd grade level.

A lot of times, kids would read one sentence and say "popcorn", and the teacher would say "You can read more than that." You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who'd be willing and able to read the entire thing. I was able, but certainly not willing...kids would always tell me to slow down because I read too fast, so I'd have to turn it down to a painful crawl.

But I assume if someone was reading too long, eventually the teacher would tell them to call on someone else.

Words at around two and a half, fluently at around three. I could only read aloud until about three and a half, I remember the moment where it "clicked" and I could suddenly read in my head. I taught myself to read. My parents would read to me, and I would look at the words. I slowly started recognizing the sound combinations that went with common combinations of marks, and then the sounds that went with individual marks. Once I had a rudimentary understanding of that, I learned sounds like "ch" by sounding out words, and then guessing what the word was if it didn't sound right. I recently read an article that was interesting. It stated that researchers have found that normal babies look at the eyes of a speaker, while Aspie babies focus on audio-motor synchronicity, the movement when sound comes out.

I can't remember exactly, I would guess around 3-4 years. I didn't quite read but I was interested in what is happening with the letters.

I don't know if this counts but my first language is Afrikaans. For my 8th birtday my dad bought me an english comic book, a week later I taught myself to read that entire english book and understand what I am reading, and at school we haven't even started reading engllish, yet.

FireBird, I'm not that very good at being able to properly supply the answer to this post for, I can't actually recall when I started reading but, I'd say probably around the age of 3 or 4..Despite being able to read there was however some inherent learning disorders along with my AS which complicated matters that to this very day cause problems but, I don't give up for, pressing onwards tends to be my main course of action..


ProfessorX

have no clue, have to ask my mum about that, lol