Tag: primary school

I grew up in the 90s and 00s without a TV: instead I built stuff

26 March 2014

Throughout my childhood, my family never had a TV. From the day I was born, until I moved out when I was 19, I had relatively little exposure to TVs or their content. At primary school, all my classmates talked about Cartoon Network and 'play-stations' and I had no idea what it was all about. […]

In theory, I'm dyslexic?

14 November 2012

I learnt to read, adventurously, from quite a young age. When I was about 7 or 8, I started to pick up real length books, without pictures or any kind of other shiny bits, and started to read to myself for fun. Within just a couple of years, I was reading books all the time. […]