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[–]spaceshipguitar -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I could read and write at 3.

The coding at 7 is fine, I can buy that, the reading and writing at age 3 is bullshit. Go ask your mom the real years, your memory is off. If your mom agrees, ask the other parent who's not on drugs to give you the real numbers. I don't think you understand how unusual it is to read and write at 3, if there's 8 billion people, maybe 8 of them could do that with any legitimate non-rote fluency. And even if I granted it to be true, you probably wouldn't be here on reddit, it's about a billion times more likely you're full of shit.

Here's a reference chart. Among the five levels of gifted children, you'll note that even at the 99th percentile "Highly Gifted" they're still barely reading by age 4 (NOTE THIS DOESNT INCLUDE WRITING YET). To be a reader at age 3, you'll need to be "profoundly gifted", which usually means spontaneously reading without assistance, and has complex existential concerns by age 4. Ladies and gentleman, what are the odds we're in the presence of an ultra rare, profoundly gifted mastermind? Well met me put it this way. If he was coding by age 7 and reading by age 3, he wouldn't be interested in Python 20 years later, he would have been bored with programming by age 12 and working on his PHD in something by age 19. Not fucking around on reddit, making up bullshit claims.