I stumbled across a thread the other day where the OP was wondering if the "early walker - late talker" relationship was accurate, and it turned into a major brag fest, much of which just didn't seem realistic to me.

Okay, I may be a bad person, but I just had to go find that. I guess that Alex isn't verbally advanced, compared to all those kids who were saying their first words at two or three months!

My favorite is the false modesty variant: "I guess she was an early-ish talker. Her vocab at 14 months was over 200 words." The "gifted children" thread is rife with stuff like that: "She's reading Shakespeare at age 5, with full comprehension, but I don't know if she's gifted - she might just be bright."