#it wasnt until middle school that I realized kids are usually taught more than phonics when it comes to reading.

[lunastarseeker]

Although I had my first words at a normal time, I barely talked at all for like a year or two afterwards. Then one day mom mom had dropped my older siblings off at school, and she started singing a lullaby to me to get me to sleep. APPARENTLY I didn't like that because I spent a full five minutes yelling at her about why I hated it when she sang me lullabies. Full sentences and everything. It wasn't until that incident that I started talking regularly, so we count the beginning of that rant, "STOP SINGING" as my first words.

She says it was one of the first signs that I was autistic. Second sign was the fact that I taught myself to read at age 3 and was reading high school level books by age 8.

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore