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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

— Barbara Corcoran

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

— Patricia Polacco

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

— Dakota Fanning

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

— Eoin Colfer

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

— Paloma Faith

I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.

— Hannibal Buress

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

— Rebecca Makkai

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

— Alan Kay

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

— Philip Schultz

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

— Ahmet Zappa