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Originally Posted by Deeno
But we're in fine company with the likes of Albert Einstein (didn't speak till age five) Bill Gates (computer geek) and its theorised a couple of the great composers were single minded, antisocial outcasts.
So its not all bad news.
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http://notmercury.blogspot.com/2006/...-einstein.html
"There are many good Einstein biographies on the web but most agree Einstein didn't speak until he was three and wasn't fluent in his native language until the age of nine."
I am not sure that this is correct - it appears to be just another myth about Einstein.
There are many. Dr Karl has a short disabuse at:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1115185.htm
about supposedly Einstein was a poor scholar. He wasn't.
Further, a number of biographies repeat the story of when his sister was born he was told he could play with her. He looked at her and said "Where are the wheels?". He was about 2 1/2 years old.
The creation and maintenance of the Late Talking Einstein Myth is explained in "The Private Lives of Albert Einstein_ by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter"
see also "Albert Einstein"_ by Albrecht Folsing, 1997
There are few reliable sources, but the probablity is that he was quite advanced for his age.