[ SECRET POST #2627 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2627 ⌋

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

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[Malcolm In The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement, Rescue Me, Prison Break]


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03.
[Michelle Kwan]


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04.
[Bear Nuts by Alison Acton]


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05.
[Supernatural]


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[OP note: pic credit to Ksenia Nurtdinova]


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[Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman]


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[Karen Gillian/Doctor Who]


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09.
[Mary Poppins (1964 movie)]


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10.
[El Goonish Shive]


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11.
[Noragami]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: "When the other preschoolers were reading See Spot Run, I was reading Hamlet!"

[ariakas]

Am I the only person who side-eyes people who claim they read really adult books at a young age?

Why would you do that though? Would you "side-eye" someone who claimed they had memorized their multiplication tables at a young age, or who could do long division in kindergarten?

Re: "When the other preschoolers were reading See Spot Run, I was reading Hamlet!"

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Honestly, I may be biased, but I tend to side eye people solely because in my experience, the people who continue to bring these things up at my age do so to prove some kind of point about their intelligence or how special they are compared to other "normal" people. I read a lot when I was a kid, mostly because I was bullied. It has fuck all to do with how intelligent, educated, kind, awesome, or whatever else I may or may not be today. I guess it's probably unfair, but I have this strong negative association between people who bring up being precocious readers and people who continue to think that they are incredibly special, and that they're better (and much smarter!) than the people they're around, and I resent it, because I think it's really shitty.

Mostly, just... why should I care? Most of us can read the same stuff now, or at least have the capacity to do so, if not the inclination. What does it matter whether we started when we were 2, 5, or 10?

... sorry for the tl;dr, I have feelings.

Re: "When the other preschoolers were reading See Spot Run, I was reading Hamlet!"

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I suppose it depends on the context people bring it up in? Because I'm one of the early readers, but most of the times it's come up, it was in conversations about 'appropriate topics for children' and things like that, usually with the opposing contention being that children, regardless of inclination, shouldn't be allowed to read above their age because they might encounter things that would corrupt or disturb them. Which I disagree with for a variety of reasons, obviously, mostly because I read above my age and met a lot of concepts for the first time while younger than people apparently think I should have been allowed to.

It usually comes up in related conversation and/or argument, I mean. I don't know why someone would bring it up out of the blue?

Re: "When the other preschoolers were reading See Spot Run, I was reading Hamlet!"

[ariakas]

Nah, I get you, I kind of feel the same way about people who talk about their IQs, or what school they went to all the time. I have to agree with Stephen Hawking on this one: those people are losers.

But reading young is just something some people do. If that's all someone has to make themselves feel special... they're really not very special.