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hazuyuri a demandé à  gifted-problems :
Hello. Does being autistic and ambiguous savant-ism count as well? I mean, donât get me wrong, I donât think Iâm superior or anything but.. um.. I have a rather hard time getting along with people and utilizing social tact without using âohâ and âumâ. Erm, I guess Iâm rather meticulous as well. Just curious.
Iâd like to send an unambiguous message of âWelcome! I want you here! Of course you count! You all count and youâre all wonderful! Please stick around!â So letâs all pretend Iâve done that well, shall we.
Anonyme a demandé à  gifted-problems :
I sort of need to ask, and I mean you guys are all like me right? So did you all start talking really really early and skip baby talk completely? Because I wouldnât even say words until I could actually properly pronounce and use them, and was constructing complex sentences from an early age. I also wanted to ask if you all took a long time to start walking, because I did that, too.
I am indebted to my mother for the following information.
I started talking at six months, which is apparently really really early. By a year I was talking all the time, âmore than you do nowâ (thank you mother). The story is that she took me for a checkup at twelve months and was asked how many words I spoke. She was completely floored: âit was like being asked how many words I spoke.â
One of my brothers started talking even earlier than that, saying âCohâ for âCoalâ (the name of our rabbit) at like three or four months, which is really ridiculously early, so early that it didnât even register that he was actually saying a word until after he had been saying it for weeks. (I was old enough that I can attest to this.)
My other brother, though, said âball,â once, at nine months, and then didnât talk again until he was two. And from then up to when he was about five, only my mother and I could really understand what he was saying; I remember translating for other people, even my father. My parents were pushed to put him in speech therapy, but they never did, and by the end of his kindergarten year it wasnât noticeable or a problem at all, and hasnât been since.
