Yeah, when I looked into my past via the Belief tape, I noticed that when I was a kid, back in the Dark Ages of optimitry, I could hardly see when my right-eye was patched (they did this for the sake of my forsaken left eye).
Well, everything was out of hard focus, because the nerves just weren't up to the challange, but I could make out words by the general shape of the word. Esentially, I was using preconscious processing to read a word at a time, making out anything difficult from the general context. All of this in the second grade.
PhotoReading seems to be inate, but latently so. It's not so much a special ability as it is the ability to use what's already there. Sort of like how anyone who isn't mute is capable of speaking, but it takes just a little extra training to be able to sing.
