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[Neonivek]

The thing is when you are very young you can understand what a word means simply by how it is used.

Which is something that I would find very difficult to do now. Though I am trying to develop my skill for tone of voice...

[Zrk2]

Hehe, that's because I learned how to speak from books written 50+ years ago.

That's definitely the best way to do it.

[Heron TSG]

While we speak of learning...

I don't know when I started speaking, but I started reading at about 24 months or so. I could punch out words on keyboards, but writing only came well into kindergarten. At some point I used letter magnets to communicate. It was a pretty awesome setup.

[Bauglir]

I learned to read from Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger, basically. At least, most things more complicated than how to recognize letters and some very basic vocabulary, which were things I had worked out pretty solidly by the time those games were out. I blame Woolsey for any problems I have these days. That's legit, right?

[SalmonGod]

I read my first novel at age 6 -- The Hobbit.  I also skipped crawling and went straight to walking at 8 months.  Plenty of people will think I'm some kind of genius when I tell them these things.  I can't imagine what they'd think about some of you

[Vector]

I read my first novel at age 6 -- The Hobbit.  I also skipped crawling and went straight to walking at 8 months.  Plenty of people will think I'm some kind of genius when I tell them these things.  I can't imagine what they'd think about some of you

Usually, that I'm lying =)

[Heron TSG]

I think I read the Hobbit first, too. Sometime before/during kindergarten. It took me months, though. I barely understood most of it, but after rereading every sentence half a dozen times, I finally got it.

Walking... eh. I was rather late.

[Neonivek]

So in conclusion we got that a large amount of people think Child Leashes are demeaning.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Well, they are. It's a child, not a dog. Sometimes they might get away from you, yes, but accidents like that happening are part of growing up. You're depriving them if they're kept tethered to you at all times in public.

[Jackrabbit]

I still have the first story I ever wrote. I can remember writing it too. I thought it was about camping and the time me and dad went fishing and thought I was doing it really well. It was only looking back about 10 years later that I realized what I'd done was slash at the paper haphazardly with a pencil.

[Vector]

I still have the first story I ever wrote. I can remember writing it too. I thought it was about camping and the time me and dad went fishing and thought I was doing it really well. It was only looking back about 10 years later that I realized what I'd done was slash at the paper haphazardly with a pencil.

I think I wrote a story about a girl who was abandoned by all her friends.  That's the oldest story I've ever written, anyway.

Unfortunately, I think I deleted what was supposed to be the start of a great scientific treatise on bubbles.  That was from when I was 7-ish.

[Heron TSG]

Mine was about how Batman and Wolverine totally teamed up to defeat the army of space pastries.

[Neonivek]

Mine was about how Batman and Wolverine totally teamed up to defeat the army of space pastries.

Oddly enough it isn't a horrible team up for that.

Batman can use a random anti-pastery device

While Wolverine can just keep eating them allowing his stomach to stretch to unfathomable proportions because of his healing factor.

[Vector]

Mine was about how Batman and Wolverine totally teamed up to defeat the army of space pastries.

You are... the best.  THE BEST

I should admit that I wrote a lot of Animorphs fanfiction.  Lots and lots.  Fifth grade was the last time, until just recently with Hetalia.  Kind of weird to realize that I wrote stuff like that without even a word for what it was, or having read any.  Suppressed the memory, too, though that's slightly less surprising.

Mine was about how Batman and Wolverine totally teamed up to defeat the army of space pastries.

Oddly enough it isn't a horrible team up for that.

Batman can use a random anti-pastery device

While Wolverine can just keep eating them allowing his stomach to stretch to unfathomable proportions because of his healing factor.

And you are the best, too.  Yes you are.

[MorleyDev]

I know when I was a plodding lil' toddler my parents used one of these when they took me to places like zoos, you know big places packed full of people where even the most caring and loving parent could still get unlucky and lose sight for that vital second or two. But at the same time, parents want to take the boy to see the bears and lions and giraffes and dolphins, it inspires a wide-eyed wonder in them which they'll most likely never have again when they age.

Since the alternative is either carrying the toddler or constantly holding their hand, it works quite well in making them feel free whilst still keeping them contained and letting them burn off energy.

From what I've seen of people at that age, there's not much difference mentally between a toddler and a dog anyway.

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I think my first real story I had to write was about a Beowulf-clone named "Braven" (Yeah, original name, it's 'cause he's brave, get it?) who goes across the sea to fight a Grendel expy xD

I used to write the odd bit of Elder Scrolls fan-fiction in my youth, not proud of any of it -.-