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Comment author: [deleted] 15 August 2012 10:43:05PM 3 points [-]

Gifted babies do things sooner - that's how early it shows up. Gifted children can learn to walk sooner, talk sooner, climb sooner, have rational thoughts sooner, etc. I'm not talking about marginally sooner. I'm talking about huge gaps like 1/3 sooner or 3 times sooner, and sometimes even 12 times sooner (William Sidis).

Einstein and Feynman didn't start to talk until they were 3.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 16 August 2012 01:11:35AM 2 points [-]

Huh. I didn't know that. My parents thought I was deaf until one day I started talking - in full and coherent sentences.

How common is that?

Comment author: Alejandro1 16 August 2012 01:46:04AM 1 point [-]

This old Language Log post discusses some fictional, real and apocryphal cases.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 August 2012 03:53:24AM 0 points [-]

Huh. I didn't know that. My parents thought I was deaf until one day I started talking - in full and coherent sentences.

How common is that?

I couldn't give a figure for it but it is a common enough occurrence that my Asperger's Syndrome textbook notes it as a possible outcome.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 August 2012 08:51:04AM 0 points [-]

I had originally read that on the WIkipedia article about Feynman, which links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_delay, which cites http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1999_06_24_newyorktimes.html (which I haven't read yet, but I'm going to).

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