A meme, a meme

[louiselux]

I've enjoyed reading the responses to this on other people's journals. I got this version from yonmei

Some of the people on my friends list, I hardly know. Some of you I think I know well, but I'm sure have the capacity to surprise me still.

So: comment and tell me something about you. Something random, or something that you think is the key to your entire personality. Yes, even the people I've known for years. Yes, even the people I've never talked to.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I learned to read before I was a year and a half old. This discombobulated the teachers at Montesorri School and Renbrook Nursery School no end, as this was the era of learning by appointment. I was not supposed to start learning to read, according to the experts of the time, until I was seven.

My favorite books of the time were three child-sized books about Lassie. One involved a fire, and one involved saving a girl from drowning. I forget what the third was about. I also have an old copy of The Wizard of Oz--yes, the original, unabridged text of L. Frank Baum--that my mother gave me when I was three or four.

My mother also had a knack of picking up books at garage sales, shoving them in my hands and ordering me to read them. As a result, I learned a lot about Greek, Roman and Norse mythology, classical literature and grammar without realizing that I was learning anything.

(Yes, I read grammar textbooks. If you had my mother, so would you. I suspect I learned to enjoy it because I knew I had to read them, and having to read something and hating it was intolerable to me. Math was bad enough.)

I suspect that all this explains a lot about me.

[yay4pikas.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, some people still think it is that era.
"Learning" to read in first grade was boring, since I was reading adult books by then, the teacher thought my parents 'forced' me (because obviously no child that age would willingly read Shakespeare), and the psychotic school librarian wouldn't even let me go in the 'big kid section' until my parents got special permission from the school.

Bleh. >.< Yes, I am still bitter.

I read a lot of mythology growing up. My love of grammar books is recent.