Originally Posted by ultramarina
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Many times, she will tell me about a topic they are discussing as a class (Eleanor Roosevelt, human body, etc), and I can tell that she is repeating word for word the way it was told to her.

When she was in a lengthy play at age 7, she memorized the other actors' lines unintentionally.

That is another thing DD does! She was in two musicals last year. Poor thing always gets cast as a narrator because they know she can memorize long stretches of dialogue. She was the kid (and the youngest, to boot), who was helping out the other kids by whispering their lines to them. She will take the script and read it every night for enjoyment, she usually has the entire musical/play memorized within two weeks just by reading it for fun.