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Originally Posted by Quoth
Lots of kids in very booky households read books for adults when they are 9 to 15 yo. Some younger.
Some kids also learn to read very early (Hyperlexia). Only some are autistic (many are otherwise normal), but it might be more common with autism.
Hyperlexia is really just a catch-all label for anyone reading competently before age 5 and youngest seems to be slightly younger than two. It could be a more common ability than detected as most kids under 5 might not have the environment.
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Sounds like me. I can’t remember learning to read - I was reading competently before starting primary school. Funnily enough, I don’t remember either of my parents reading with me although they must have, it was my decidedly non-bookish paternal grandmother. In my family, it was my father who read compulsively; my memories of him are him sitting at the table in the bay window, cigarette in one hand, book in the other, with a pack of cigarettes and pot of coffee beside him.
I hasten to say I don’t share his taste in literature - he liked WWII fiction.