Why would it matter What you are? It does not affct your abilities. I have quite a few prodigies In my family so my viws on the maturity level of any person over 10 was admittededly colored by it. Then... I met my 12 year old nephew by marriage, He was so badly behaved I couldn't help but think there was something wrong with him. I tried not to let it show until he joked (I hope) about putting fire ants on his uncle who is fatally allergic to them and only gave this creepy little laugh when I told him so. However, he is the same age as a step-cousin I met a few months later And while I was surprised by his back talk to his step-mother (who had raised him from a baby and legally adopted him) I couldn't Help but notice that he behaved rather similar to some high school grads I knew. I can only conclude that most people are set in their ways by middle school and if their reading and writing skills aen't developed by then then they never will be. Mine were attained by 5th grade(if anything I've let myself go) Now, If I were to tell someone they write like a six year old....THEN I would expect offense to be taken. I believe in recent years Ive done this once. Here http://www.fanfiction.net/s/540846/1/ I even went as far to allow that perhaps the quality of this work could be do to an incomplete grasp on English....but I doubt it. I was an avid reader as a young Navy brat. I moved Too ofen to make friends at first and was permanently ingrained with this habit by 10 years old. Cosequently, I developed very good reading skills and a close relationship with my sister who was only13 months younger(excepting the high school years of coarse) I had few friends but I was one of the few who exchanged birthday and holiday cards wth the school librarian.(no joke) I played D&D and AD&D with my father and chess with my baby brother who beat his chess coach and the entire rest of the team byage 14(he surprised us allwhen he was nine by asking for an atlas and a globe for Christmas) I suppose that my point in saying all this is that there was no insult intended when I suggested you might be in high school. It simply was that I only had evidence from your journal that you had at least got that far. Your talk of classes and exams left me with two possible conclusions. you were in high school or college...I did not wish to ask outright(internet protocal, I could have been a wierdo for all you know) So, I admit, I fished......And was made to know in no uncertain terms that you were in college. When I fish I'm happy to get a carp...YOU let me have the shark.
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Date: 2008-08-15 11:00 am (UTC)I was an avid reader as a young Navy brat. I moved Too ofen to make friends at first and was permanently ingrained with this habit by 10 years old. Cosequently, I developed very good reading skills and a close relationship with my sister who was only13 months younger(excepting the high school years of coarse) I had few friends but I was one of the few who exchanged birthday and holiday cards wth the school librarian.(no joke) I played D&D and AD&D with my father and chess with my baby brother who beat his chess coach and the entire rest of the team byage 14(he surprised us allwhen he was nine by asking for an atlas and a globe for Christmas)
I suppose that my point in saying all this is that there was no insult intended when I suggested you might be in high school. It simply was that I only had evidence from your journal that you had at least got that far. Your talk of classes and exams left me with two possible conclusions. you were in high school or college...I did not wish to ask outright(internet protocal, I could have been a wierdo for all you know) So, I admit, I fished......And was made to know in no uncertain terms that you were in college. When I fish I'm happy to get a carp...YOU let me have the shark.