Words are inadequate

Interesting! I remember a lot of Mrs. PiggleWiggle and Amelia Bedilia, then Encyclopedia Brown and Little Women/Men/Boys.

I don't remember not being able to read. I have been told numerous times by my family that I was reading at four years old. I had memorized Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now both forward and backward by the middle of kindergarten. Likewise, I don't remember not being able to write. I remember learning cursive very early on in my elementary school years because I wanted to sign my name like Dad did. So my early handwriting looked textbook straight up and down until it came to my name, which was slanty and precisely-loopy like Dad's.