On: The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)

[jhgb]

> He taught himself to read by age 2.

Well, I taught myself to read by the age of 3...

> He was taking Calculus at age 7.

...OK, clearly something went awry with me between the ages of 3 and 7.

[asddubs → jhgb]

i hit my personal rock bottom at age 5. i never recovered

[hellbannedguy → asddubs]

I flunked kindergarten. (It hurt even at that age.)

[chalst → hellbannedguy]

&LOL;

The early mastery of swearing I picked up between backseat driving (that is, listening to my Scottish mother's running commentary on other drivers) and my spongelike absorption of Canadian broadcast media, earned my parents a stern reproach from the ultra-bourgeois kindergarten they sent me off.

[glitchc → hellbannedguy]

My oldest friend was held back in kindergarten. That’s how I met him.

[kbelder → glitchc]

Of course he's your oldest friend; being held back, he's a year older than all your others.

[charles_f → glitchc]

My kid is 3.5 and he still believes that 10 comes after 8. I'm deeply worried now.

[kierkegaard7 → charles_f]

Well, he's not wrong...

[CRConrad → charles_f]

This is why you start your kids' acquaintance with computing in any OS but Windows.

[beardyw → charles_f]

He is just counting base 9. You need to catch up.

[jacobolus → charles_f]

Einstein didn’t speak until age 4, so your kid is probably too precociously verbal to be the world’s most famous physicist.

[andi999 → jacobolus]

Probably he had to think it through which first words were appropriate.

[jose-cl → charles_f]

nah, just let him/her play

[chris_wot → jhgb]

I'm hoping I'm a late bloomer from between the ages of 42 and 47.

[chalst → jhgb]

Insufficiently expensive education.

With the right calculus teacher, I'm sure you'd have got the gist of it by your 60th month.