My grandfather skipped a couple of grades, and going to college at age 15 was actually really traumatic for him. He always said openly that he simply was not yet ready to leave his mommy. :)

There are really two levels of comprehension in reading fiction though - understanding the vocabulary and relating to the text. I was an early reader with a good vocabulary but a lot of the books I was reading at 8-11 are books I only really understood when I reread them at 15+, simply because I hadn’t lived enough…

Yeah, I meant less in a vocab sense and more in a plot sense. I mean, I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time when I was ten, but I didn’t really understand what was going on in the book until I was a few years older. Less about the words, more about the lack of life experience.

No judgement here. Vodka is a food group, right? Right?

She seems more adult than I am. She probably pays her bills on time and eats something other than candy for breakfast (it’s been a bad week, everyone).

Yeah, but at what level is she really comprehending it? (I don’t know why I’m bothering to ask this, there’s probably a great many college-age kids she has better reading comprehension than, lots of kids I went to high school with managed to get to college with zero reading comprehension skills.)

Idk, because genius children are weird, and sometimes they grow up to be only as smart as the rest of us.

I’ve decided to be an asshole and guess that most of them are picture books rather than straight chapter books. Which of course is still very impressive.

4 years old. And 4 million times more fluent than our peotus.

Yeah, I’ve had yearly physicals with all that stuff. I did it without any surgery or eating disorder. I had done a liquid diet in 2006 and used the meal replacement shakes for four meals and then had a high protein, low calorie dinner. And I exercised every day (six days of walk/jogging, two sets of 150 push ups,…

I actually lost weight after a break-up because I was so depressed I barely ate for several months. And every time someone congratulated me for losing weight, I wanted to crawl into a hole. Even my own mother commented enviously, until I finally told her she could be “skinny” too if she cried tears for dinner instead…

She has gotten worse over the years. She used to be cool, funny and the only down to earth one. Now shes a hair touching, lip pouting idiot.

EXACTLY. I started working out more after a breakup, but it was because running was a great outlet for all of that nervous energy and reaching milestones were small wins that I needed. Some weight loss was just a by-product of getting my mental and physical health in order. The confidence boost doesn’t hurt but it’s…

I’ve only ever lost significant weight when I wasn’t trying to, and each time it was because I was either very stressed or very sad.

This happened to me!

E!’s new series Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian is based on the idea that if someone wrongs you, you can get back at them by altering your body’s shape and size.

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I have a coworker who mixes a can of green beans and Tuna and microwaves it for lunch like every single day. It smells horrific. She’s not some sort health nut though, she’s like 70 so no one is going to stop her.

theres something inherently masturbatory about manipulating parts of your body with someone else in mind.

It appears from other articles that the dad and other kids don’t live with her. I assume some sort of custody battle issue.