#because I had apparently realized that Mouth Noises conveyed secret knowledge but couldn't figure out how that conveyance worked

[edenfalling]

#I don’t actually bc my parents say i gained and lost words regularly for a period of months before i started remembering them and using them #consistently. however my sister had a real first word and I sometimes think my parents just cared less by the time i came around and #didn’t pay as much attention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (via @wordsforrain)

They were paying attention! You legit didn't have a proper "first word" -- your babbling kind of asymptotically approached English over several months and it really was impossible to say when you properly "had" a word.

I think you had the concept of SPEECH down more than the concept of WORDS, so there was like. A sort of grammar to the sounds you strung together? Which often got your general intent across? But when that shifted from gibberish with occasional probably-a-word sounds to mostly words with occasional gibberish? Heck if I know.

Source: me. I was your babble-to-English translator for a few months there.

Do you know what your first word was?