How old were you your first time?

Probably around 5 or so.

At around 8, I realized that some of these other people had to be fucking retarded, as well.
 
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when I was around 4 and started Learning English to go to school. Figuring out that People use different ways to say the same thing started getting me to wonder about what other people meant when they said something.
 
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when I was around 4 and started Learning English to go to school. Figuring out that People use different ways to say the same thing started getting me to wonder about what other people meant when they said something.
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Language's pliability and malleability are interesting. They're also potentially very dangerous in the wrong hands.
 
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Not that long ago, maybe 20 or 21. Before that age it never appeared in my mind that people may have thoughts, experiences and judgments about everything.
And maybe i'm just autistic
EDIT: i see a lot of ppl say they realized it when they were 4-6 y.o. At that age i was sure that all ppl around me are robots. Watching terminator back then was a mistake
 
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I was about 10-11 years old.

Everything was just straight-lined for me until then. One way was the right way until I saw the benefits of the other way.
 
4 or 5. I would expect most people to say anywhere from 4-8, because part of transitioning from Piaget's preoperational to concrete operational stage (which occurs at that age range) involves understanding that others think different things and know different things from you. There is actually several tests for it, and one of the best known is the Sally Anne Task.
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The child is told a story about a girl called Sally and another girl called Anne. Sally puts a marble in her basket, and then goes to play. Sally's sister Anne later comes while Sally is gone, takes the marble, and moves it to her toybox. The question is when Sally comes back, where will she look for the marble?

A preoperational child (or a person with autism who does not have theory of mind, as autistics of all ages can show deficits in this task) will answer that Sally will look in Anne's box because they do not understand that Sally would not know that Anne has moved the marble, and that what they know is different from what Sally would know and that Sally can have a false belief. A concrete or formal operational person will understand that what Sally would know is different from what they know and can anticipate her false belief, and thus would answer correctly that Sally would check in the basket.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans can also pass the test, and anticipate the false beliefs of a subject in a King-Kong Suit.
 
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