Childhood Skill Acquisition

I also learned to read at the age of four. I've been told that from quite an early age I liked to play in my room alone, so introversion might have been a factor increasing the likelihood that I would browse books instead of running after ants. It's hard to say because there must be countless things contributing to how fast certain skills develop, including genetics.

I'd say at a young age both upbringing and genetic components are more influential than personality, although there's of course some evidence that certain aspects of personality (like introversion) are also genetic. But of course as the personality develops, behaviour patterns often become more fixed in ways that go far beyond instinctual impulses. The influence of particular genes also keeps changing as the child grows up, so in research it's difficult to determine the causes and the effects. Maybe looking at infants and toddlers (compared to adults) it's even more difficult to say where the personality starts and the influence of other factors ends.

 

Well yes, I can't really say this way or that. Personality, genes, upbringing, it's all a big mess in the sense that all of these have varying effects and I'm not enough of an expert although I've studied some psychology (not as a major).

It's interesting that you decided to learn to read despite reading material being forbidden (I can't imagine why). For me it was never a conscious decision, so maybe that's why it's easier to say that in my case the question of personality is uncertain. One day I was just browsing some reading material when something changed very suddenly, and I read my first word, slowly, but then I was immediately able to read everything. I hadn't even been taught the alphabet at that age. But I do remember I had a favourite story book, like most children, and I knew the story by heart. I must have looked at the book so many times while it was read to me that I simply learned the meaning of the letters and words without a conscious effort. I have no idea what personality functions would be involved in that situation. But I do think that learning to read had a huge effect on my personality, opening up a world that other kids my age didn't know.

Anyway, some MBTI theorists say that the personality type develops very slowly so that up until puberty it's mainly the dominant function that's developing, So from that viewpoint the question would really be about the influence of introverted intuition in INFJ development.

 

I knew the whole alphabet and how to read before my first day of kindergarten. No idea if it's an INTP thing or if i was taught.

 

Age 5, and i remember being able to read everything once i was there and being perplexed as to why the other kids didn't know how to read or in many cases didn't know it well.

I have one specific memory also of the teacher having an emotional breakdown because later in the school year she posed the problem 2+3=?
and got so frustrated she almost started crying because no one knew the answer. I gave the answer, 23 of course, and she thanked me after class for some reason (?) so i think i knew math when i got there too but my memory before arriving at kindergarten is hopelessly fuzzy.

 

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My mom read to my brother and I all the time when we were little. He read at 3 and I read at 4. I always loved to read. I always read biographies because I was incredibly interested in how others people lived. I also got interested in esp. When I was 12 I read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams which was totally amazing. I knew then what I going to do with my life. I used to read Psychology text books for fun.