Reading

At what age did you start reading Veeky Forums and what has it done to change your life?

10. This is the life I'm used to so I really can't say. Though the road's been bumpy I love life.

>he gives the age at which he literally started to read the alphabet.
in all seriousness, good for you user, though it's a pretty innocuous statement, saying one loves life is not common these days.

In elementary school where I would finish my work and read under my table so I didn’t have to talk to anyone

16... that's when i discovered dr jordan b peterson... he thought me how to think, how to see past the feminist lies and i will always consider him a friend for that

I actually had difficulty reading at an early age. In second grade my school decided to put me in a class were the teacher works one on one with you to improve you're reading ability. Within about a year of taking that class I had fallen in love with reading, and kept at it ever since.

17. Count of Monte Cristo. Literature has me simultaneously more pretentious and soul crushingly depressed at my inadequacy.

>Reading since as early as I could remember
>Through elementary+middle school always had excellent vocabulary and strong writing skills, credit it to YA trash
>Obsessive, borderline autistic fascination with crafting worlds - would spend time imagining them play out, took autistic pleasure in having a realistic set of rules governing them.
>Took extended reading hiatus during high school, was too cool for it or something.
>Began reading 'serious' literature in college. 1984, BNW, Vonnegut, all that Reddit-core shit. Kind of deluded myself into liking them because they were 'real, important' books.
>Started to sincerely enjoy literature when I read David Copperfield, then read most of Dickens' oeuvre.
>Reading becomes something where thoughts and feelings I had become manifest
>Begin reading Proust
>Sincerely feel like every difficulty or trouble I've ever had was perfectly rendered into being within ISOLT
>Wish I could be reading Proust when I feel anxious or upset
>Learn French to read him in original form

I don't know if it's changed my life, but sincere enjoyment of literature, as opposed to reading books you're 'meant' to read (albeit Reddit-core), enriched my life desu.

Been reading for as long as I’ve been able to read. I think it has made me more empathetic, critical, and well-spoken over all. But on the other hand it has made me quite lonely - there’s absolutely no one my age who wants to talk about old books. I also think it’s those old book’s fault that I can’t enjoy superhero movies and whatever, which makes it even worse. Not that I’d have it any other way, but, you know.

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