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5-htagonist · 2 days ago

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i read the hunger games books multiple times over as a kid, and i didnt like katniss' ending at first, bc my hyperlexic ass could read the words long before i could REALLY Comprehend the concepts, but as soon as i got a firm understanding of aromanticism and trauma and and etcetc... i like it a lot now

#^bro had the most subtleeeee learning delay !!!!#it kind of disturbs me because like. i just. didnt have a teacher that really helped me UNDERSTAND stuff like themes? i was shy #and i was REALLY good at guessing on questions like theme and mood based on what the teacher said #but i didnt. GET them i usually got half points or missed those questions or wasnt detailed enough #same thing with character motivation #unless i was intimately familiar with the story #and even then stuff like hs and su and mp100... it took multiple times over and also participation in fan discussion to Get what was happen #idk what happened or why it clicked #it was like. slowly thru junior year and into senior i had 2 great teachers in a row #the texts we read were interesting and were about things i could identify as giving a shit about from a fairly surface level #i dont know what made it click..#which is what makes me think its hyperlexia #it was really like an epiphany? or a set of epiphanies #but i could read a LOT of words really fucking fast #i was reading on my own when i was 4 #which apparently isnt normal #and they said i read at a 7th grade level when i was in 3rd grade #and by the time i was in 7th grade i was reading at a college level #which! at my school was pretty much just based on knowing vocab!!!!#and damn did i know vocab. i just couldnt.. see.. the bigger picture....... Um. *gulps in missed autism diagnosis*#just connected that thats a manifestation of focusing on the details..#but yeah its weird #i was always pretty sure i didnt have any major developmental delays #just trouble communicating and socializing etcetc sensory issues whatever #im p sure i hit all my milestones on time or early as a bebe #except that... also i was (am...) a wanderer. i got the cops called on me by my family cause i wandered to a neighbors house (there were #kids a little older than me there and i had an older neighbor friend from another house so i thought it was chill. plus they had video game #and i lived w old people so i didnt get any games until i was 7 (dsi))#im pretty sure they wouldnt have called the cops if it was a white family -_- they would refer to them as Them Patels -_-#but regardless i was pulling the irish goodbye before i shouldve LOL

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