No sleep difficulties; no muscular twitching; no special fears.
Sleeps nine hours, fairly soundly.
MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERISTICS
Her superior ability was first noticed by people from the University, at 15 months, because of comprehension beyond that expected at such an age."
She is interested in music and wrote the school song at Speyer. She has been very much interested in nature study and science since her second or third year, and "in her relationship to the world and the cosmos." Has asked questions frequently concerning origins and creation.
She has shown no special interests in mechanics, drawing, or painting, but from her second year she has had active interests in recitation and in the dramatization of nursery rhymes, etc.
She has played with imaginary companions. She began making up rhymes at an early age. "She reasons logically and has a strong sense of justice."
A neatly bound volume of typed pages, prepared by I as a Christmas present, 1937, for Leta S. Hollingworth, is entitled "First Poems." There are in the collection a dozen short verses or longer poems, each dated by I's age at the time of composition. The ages range from 4.5 to 8 years. A few samples follow.
STARS
The stars are shining bright tonight
I wonder why they shine so bright
I guess to make it light at night.
Age 5 years