Like (I suspect) every other member of this list, I read fluently. I can't, in fact *not read*. I can't look at a word without knowing what it says. I can look at a musical staff and have *no idea* what I'm supposed to be hearing. I can, with a piano and *a lot* of effort, painfully sound out the notes, but that's not reading. For all practical purposes, I learn music the way a blind woman does, and I'm really sad about that. I keep working, but all that good early-childhood learning stuff stopped happening for me *long* time ago. Mia