[ SECRET POST #3518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3518 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Star Trek: Voyager]


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[Voltron]


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[Up the Women]


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[Digimon Adventure 02]


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[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]


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[The Sims]


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08.
[The X-Files]


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[Letterkenny, Stewart/Katy]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty rare. Most kids don't learn how to read until they start school (so ages 5 to 7).
I can see why they wouldn't include it... I know it's only a game, but Sims is one of those rare games where the positive feedback centers around how everything is so reminiscent of real life. The more realistic, the better.

You can use cheats or find a mod for it if you like? If there isn't one, it shouldn't take too much effort to create one yourself. In the older games at least. From my understanding modding skills in the newest sims is a bit more complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd think 3 would be extremely rare, and even the 3-year-olds who "read" I imagine are mostly looking at pictures, turning pages, enjoying being read to, and parroting the story as they remember it. (though in all fairness I suppose that can qualify as "bookworm", that is, someone who enjoys books, even if they aren't truly reading them) Certainly recognizing letters and such is possible by that age, though. It wouldn't be until 4-5 that you see the earliest kids start basic reading - closer to 6. At least English reading, which is hard because there are so many possible sounds that letters can make and it isn't intuitively phonetic.

*my experience volunteering in an early learning center

[deird1]

I was reading simple things by myself at 3. And reading novels at 4. It's rare, but it does happen.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my cousins by the time he was three and a half he had taught himself to read from his older brother's (educational) computer games and was very capable of reading 'The Tailor of Gloucester' by Beatrix Potter to me (which is not one of the easier Beatrix Potter books!)

I realise he is the exception rather than the rule though. And he is still very, very clever at 16. My own son is just three and his nursery teachers are impressed he can recognise numbers up to 12 and maybe a third of the alphabet.

[(Anonymous)]

It certainly happens. I mean, I was a reader at 3, started kindergarten early, and spent my elementary years in gifted and talented programs. I definitely fell asleep reading actual books, and not "read to toddlers"-level books at 4-5.

I remember handing a book back to a teacher in kindergarten because it was "too easy." They didn't test me on reading before school but with questions about what happens to ice when it melts and things like that.

It's not that rare -- there were several kids in G&T programs in my school of 500 kids, maybe 25? So 5%? Perhaps they funneled the top 5% of kids into the program, I don't know.

My IQ is in the top 5% (not even Mensa-level, which is the top 2%. I'm not a genius or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, my whole family are early readers. My parents have video of me reading simple books at age 2, and my brothers and niece were all the same. We're not super smart or anything, just had a lot of books around and some kind of tendency to read early. And then we all needed glasses by the age of 10.

[litalex]

I remember reading at three, though it was a Chinese comics collection book... I distinctly remember reading it because I got one of the words wrong and couldn't figure out the logic of the sentence.