Yes, but milestones can be misremembered as well. I've had people tell me that their kids were talking in sentences at 18 months, for instance, as recall of their early milestones. These are kids I was around at that age and not only were they not speaking in sentences, they weren't speaking at all beyond maybe a word or two. I think that's what I was getting at in regard to "hypochondria" regarding signs of intellect. If you want to see it, you can make things into something they are not and/or remember things off.
So true. Personally, I remembered DH8's milestones incorrectly- though in the opposite direction. I was going through old files and found a dated list of words I'd compiled that he had read the day I discovered he knew how to sound things out. The date on it placed him at a much younger age than I'd remembered. I guess I was more comfortable remembering him beginning to read a little early versus very early. I've definitely seen it go both ways though.
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