very early language development.

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Is this common at all? I often hear of delayed speech, but I spoke at an abnormally early age. most people do not believe it, but I have it documented.
I could read, write and cursive before grade school began.
When I first attended school and the teacher would write on the chalkboard, I would write letter as I had memorized them. Sitting across from my mother and memorizing her writings. So I would without notice at times invert some letters upside down and backwards.
And when I started structured school, I was under the impression time was the most important aspect of writing. So I wrote fast and sloppy. (which i still do.)
So it was extremely sloppy, fast and dyslexic looking.
They thought I was slow.
I figured out what they wanted and quickly adapted to writing slow and precise and following the guidelines.
Because I had too.
I was then moved to the gifted/talented program.
Anyone else?

Well, hyperlexia (when a kid can read by age 3 or 4) is frequently associated with autism, although it is usually associated with at least a temporary speech delay. It seems like a lot of people on here spoke relatively early though (a little too early for some of them- I think their parents may have been a little overzealous in attributing speech to whatever sounds they were producing).

How early did you speak? Just don't say 3 weeks- I'll be a little skeptical!

I spoke at approximately 3.5 months.
And i never had very much baby talk, I would speak in complete sentences very young.

forget specific time frames... but i know i was an avid reader when young... if not specifically early. i started teaching myself spanish at about 10 via reading dictionaries ect... and music. can still remember which of my few dictionaries i learned particular spanish words from (like i specifically remember which dicctionary i was looking at and what part of my house i was sitting in when i came across a "particular" word)

Apparently I was speaking full sentences before 10 months, and no baby talk. I was reading english before 4 years, was reading electric pictorals before 5, and electronic/mechanic schematics before 6. I had to add those last 2 to keep up with sedaka a bit. I never got to learn the language I wanted until later. 8-( And my attitude wasn't conducive to learning a language I DIDN'T want to or have to learn. Ironically, I should be pretty good with 6 of them, maybe more, by the end of this year.

Steve

I don't know if I learned to read before starting school, but my mother began reading to me at a very early age. It was the only way she could hold my attention. She said she could read to me literally all day. I had an odd ability to identify the name of a record (this was in the days of long-playing records) by their pattern. Despite starting kindergarten with limited English skills (my first language was German), I was reading at fourth grade level in first grade.

I started talking around the normal age... when I was about 12 months old.

But my speech was always somewhat more complicated than normal and I used overly formal/poetic terms for some words. I still do, sometimes.

I learnt to write 1-2 months after going to school.

I didn't speak.... Didn't really want to either.

I could speak, i.e., when I got my foot caught in a bike chain and I required stitches when I was four or something...my mother said it was the first time I actually spoke anything other than “yes” and “no” when I was questioning the doctor; I supposedly surprised her with my vocabulary -- I listened a lot.

If it was "important" enough to me I could speak adequately.... I never learnt to read English completely.

I apparently authored some magazines before I enrolled in school and learned to read there, partially with an alphabet of my own. I've got to see if that stuff is still around somewhere.

I could read being 2,5 year old. It was always as natural thing for me as breathing. When I was 5-6 year old I read books written for people in their early teens. I started to speak my first words when I was 9 months old. My language was always formal, I knew many words derived from the books read by me.

I started speaking at 5 months, though I would only speak to my nan and grandad (as I lived with them) I would talk a lot to my grandparents, but as soon as anyone else was around I would not be able to talk. In school I went through periods when I could not talk, I was not even be able to say 'yes' to my name in the register often.
I don't know about my reading and writting, people would always say that I read very quickly, but when asked to read out-loud, I stumble over words a lot.
My writting is pretty bad. I still forget which letter is which, mainly I get p + q, d + b, h + f, mixed up. Its not uncommon to find a number 3 or 5 written backwards in the middle of my writting either, I am very glad to have had access to computers most of the time.

I am told I talked, read and wrote early.
Also, I never crawled... I just stood up one day and was off.

Same for me. But for some reason, my mother thought it was some kind of superpower, and started showing me to her friends like a circus freak. It was "read this, read that", all the time. Luckily, the more I grew, the less amazing it was.

I think most toddlers speak like babies just because they are taught so. Many adults use "baby language" when talking to children, like saying "look, a woof-woof" instead of "a dog". No wonder their speech is delayed in comparison to hyperlexic children.

I never had a speech problem at an early age at all I spoke quite well. I did have motor control problems at a young age

I have been told that I was an early talker and that I skipped the baby talk and went straight to multi-syllables and sentences.
Also, i don't actually remember learning how to read..I know that I did not learn in school, but by the time i reached 1st grade I sorta regressed, because I was too stressed out by my first grade class, where I had a really mean teacher..So I ended up a really good reader in the lowest reading group for a while.

My mother was also very proud of my ability to read very early. I remember that when I was in the first grade my teacher praised me and promised to other kids that if they spend more time reading they'd equal to me although I didn't see anything extraordinary in my ability. For me it was simply normal. I lived in a village during 3 years, since I was 3 and it was when I was 6 when we moved to the town where we still live. But before we did it I used to spend practically all the time with the simple, uneducated people, often old and born before the Second World War when an education wasn't compulsory, who didn't speak a good grammatical Polish but used a dialect, the words which were sometimes twisted. Although I was only 6 I was well-read as for a child of my age so I knew how to pronounce those words correctly. It was very useful when we moved to a town because this way nobody mocked me because of me using a funny rustic words and phrases.