If they throw their ASD-3 kid in an institution and just lavish attention on their Golden Child who is hyperlexic and follows every rule and uses his narrow special interest to get a scholarship to engineering school, they're in for a surprise when the ASD-1 Golden Child has a baby...
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If they throw their ASD-3 kid in an institution and just lavish attention on their Golden Child who is hyperlexic and follows every rule and uses his narrow special interest to get a scholarship to engineering school, they're in for a surprise when the ASD-1 Golden Child has a baby...
Hyperlexic Autistic here. I've noticed the degrading standards, the mistakes in articles on respected news sites.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Hyperlexic Autistic here. I've noticed the degrading standards, the mistakes in articles on respected news sites.
same, and my dad accidentally gave my hyperlexic ass Neil Postman in middle school, so I was kinda neurotically worried our multiple subscriptions to monthly magazines was cheapening our house against more books, so…I’m pretty alien here, but deeply fascinated by it.
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
same, and my dad accidentally gave my hyperlexic ass Neil Postman in middle school, so I was kinda neurotically worried our multiple subscriptions to monthly magazines was cheapening our house against more books, so…I’m pretty alien here, but deeply fascinated by it.
I learned about three-cueing the other day and it’s left me feeling consternation as someone whose main form of expression involves being very specifically hyperlexic.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I learned about three-cueing the other day and it’s left me feeling consternation as someone whose main form of expression involves being very specifically hyperlexic.
lrs am proooobably hyperlexic so I don’t remember having to learn how to read but thankful for Sesame Street as well as doing phonics + Greek & Latin roots in school
I really wonder if there’s anything to help ppl struggling w literacy when this is the way they’ve been taught since they were kids?
I really wonder if there’s anything to help ppl struggling w literacy when this is the way they’ve been taught since they were kids?
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
lrs am proooobably hyperlexic so I don’t remember having to learn how to read but thankful for Sesame Street as well as doing phonics + Greek & Latin roots in school
I really wonder if there’s anything to help ppl struggling w literacy when this is the way they’ve been taught since they were kids?
I really wonder if there’s anything to help ppl struggling w literacy when this is the way they’ve been taught since they were kids?
Yet also weirdly the only site for hyperlexic people that like to read too much
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Yet also weirdly the only site for hyperlexic people that like to read too much
hyperlexic autistic, here; genuinely hated this, thanks
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
hyperlexic autistic, here; genuinely hated this, thanks
I'm fairly certain Richard Tice can kiss my stimming, hyperlexic, noise sensitive, psychotic, spoonie behind.
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I'm fairly certain Richard Tice can kiss my stimming, hyperlexic, noise sensitive, psychotic, spoonie behind.
Late diagnosed autistic and lifelong hyperlexic. I uh. Am reasonably sure this is accurate +- 15 books. And am trying to use getting back to fanfic as getting back in writing waters
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Late diagnosed autistic and lifelong hyperlexic. I uh. Am reasonably sure this is accurate +- 15 books. And am trying to use getting back to fanfic as getting back in writing waters
I'm bedbound, hyperlexic, & so allergic to dust these days I can't read most physical books even if I tendonitis and arthritis allow. I use Libby a lot.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I'm bedbound, hyperlexic, & so allergic to dust these days I can't read most physical books even if I tendonitis and arthritis allow. I use Libby a lot.
Hyperlexic here, I read to the end of most things 🤣 I do keep the marketing emails to a minimum, mostly charities.
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hyperlexic here, I read to the end of most things 🤣 I do keep the marketing emails to a minimum, mostly charities.
I was an extremely early talker (hyperlexic autistics represent) and spent a while referring to myself exclusively in the second person because as far as I could tell at a year and a half old the word "you" was a referent to Me Specifically rather than the word one uses when talking to someone else.
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I was an extremely early talker (hyperlexic autistics represent) and spent a while referring to myself exclusively in the second person because as far as I could tell at a year and a half old the word "you" was a referent to Me Specifically rather than the word one uses when talking to someone else.
i mean the form was also not fit for purpose and ignored all the research on how autism presents in girls. no i didn’t develop speech late, i was hyperlexic, no i didn’t have a stereotypical hobby. also tho unfit for purpose asking things like that when like. we were poor. i couldn’t have hobbies
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
i mean the form was also not fit for purpose and ignored all the research on how autism presents in girls. no i didn’t develop speech late, i was hyperlexic, no i didn’t have a stereotypical hobby. also tho unfit for purpose asking things like that when like. we were poor. i couldn’t have hobbies
Used to go to the library as a kid and check out Garfield books. I was a voracious reader, hyperlexic, learned at 2 and read everything I could get my hands on. But at the library? Garfield time, baby
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Used to go to the library as a kid and check out Garfield books. I was a voracious reader, hyperlexic, learned at 2 and read everything I could get my hands on. But at the library? Garfield time, baby
Same. I've had to have my I.Q. tested, when I was in elementary I slipped by for a year or two before they realized I was insanely dyslexic. I have immense compassion in regard to learning issues. A public school & loving family worked me right through it. I became wildly hyperlexic & multilingual.
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Same. I've had to have my I.Q. tested, when I was in elementary I slipped by for a year or two before they realized I was insanely dyslexic. I have immense compassion in regard to learning issues. A public school & loving family worked me right through it. I became wildly hyperlexic & multilingual.
I used to carry a dictionary around, too! I was hyperlexic, so I know my experience with reading is very different from that of most people. But I wouldn't have ever guessed that people weren't talk how to actually read in school!
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I used to carry a dictionary around, too! I was hyperlexic, so I know my experience with reading is very different from that of most people. But I wouldn't have ever guessed that people weren't talk how to actually read in school!
me having a hyperlexic autistic moment, noticing i once again forgot that most people learn words accoustically first, not as text 😅
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
me having a hyperlexic autistic moment, noticing i once again forgot that most people learn words accoustically first, not as text 😅
I am hyperlexic + dyslexic.
Microblogging requires me to chunk & shorten what has given me a Dopamine Hit.
I thread to capture these as best I can.
I use parentheses & footnotes b/c every thought I have is like that.
Microblogging requires me to chunk & shorten what has given me a Dopamine Hit.
I thread to capture these as best I can.
I use parentheses & footnotes b/c every thought I have is like that.
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I am hyperlexic + dyslexic.
Microblogging requires me to chunk & shorten what has given me a Dopamine Hit.
I thread to capture these as best I can.
I use parentheses & footnotes b/c every thought I have is like that.
Microblogging requires me to chunk & shorten what has given me a Dopamine Hit.
I thread to capture these as best I can.
I use parentheses & footnotes b/c every thought I have is like that.
Yep. To be clear, my own kid was reading pretty fluently before Reception because she's hyperlexic, our problems with it all stemmed more from her accent causing issues for the testing with nonsense words (which also shouldn't happen, but, well)
Also, pitiful levels of dyslexia screening here.
Also, pitiful levels of dyslexia screening here.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yep. To be clear, my own kid was reading pretty fluently before Reception because she's hyperlexic, our problems with it all stemmed more from her accent causing issues for the testing with nonsense words (which also shouldn't happen, but, well)
Also, pitiful levels of dyslexia screening here.
Also, pitiful levels of dyslexia screening here.
Well now! I just learned something. I didn't know what hyperlexic was so I looked it up. I guess it could be applied to me because I could read before 5, but it was because my grandmother taught me to. Never occurred to her that I might be too young. I thought it was normal.
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Well now! I just learned something. I didn't know what hyperlexic was so I looked it up. I guess it could be applied to me because I could read before 5, but it was because my grandmother taught me to. Never occurred to her that I might be too young. I thought it was normal.
My son (2.5) and I are both hyperlexic and did the same thing at that age! It’s been fun for my husband and I to point out to each other when we notice our son’s reader’s accent coming out (like “kas-TUHL” for “castle”) 🥰
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My son (2.5) and I are both hyperlexic and did the same thing at that age! It’s been fun for my husband and I to point out to each other when we notice our son’s reader’s accent coming out (like “kas-TUHL” for “castle”) 🥰
This thread makes me so sad and confused. But my brain is hyperlexic so I never struggled with reading. I may be awkward and literal but my reading comp has saved my ass time and again.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This thread makes me so sad and confused. But my brain is hyperlexic so I never struggled with reading. I may be awkward and literal but my reading comp has saved my ass time and again.
I don't think I'm clinically hyperlexic, but I read very early, very fast, and very well. It was not a valued skill when I was in school, but it has saved my life. It helped me succeed in spite of my math issues-- (though I never truly feel successful.)
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I don't think I'm clinically hyperlexic, but I read very early, very fast, and very well. It was not a valued skill when I was in school, but it has saved my life. It helped me succeed in spite of my math issues-- (though I never truly feel successful.)
So then they had to skip me ahead.
Hyperlexic kids with motor skills delays or difficulties exist. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.
This 3-cue thing sounds like just another fad that they clung to long after the data showed that it wasn’t working.
Hyperlexic kids with motor skills delays or difficulties exist. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.
This 3-cue thing sounds like just another fad that they clung to long after the data showed that it wasn’t working.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
So then they had to skip me ahead.
Hyperlexic kids with motor skills delays or difficulties exist. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.
This 3-cue thing sounds like just another fad that they clung to long after the data showed that it wasn’t working.
Hyperlexic kids with motor skills delays or difficulties exist. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.
This 3-cue thing sounds like just another fad that they clung to long after the data showed that it wasn’t working.
JFC Thank you so fucking much.
My daughter is hyperlexic and taught herself to read with freaking subtitles.
She's been having trouble in math.
Duly noted.
Thank you so fucking much. Sincerely.
My daughter is hyperlexic and taught herself to read with freaking subtitles.
She's been having trouble in math.
Duly noted.
Thank you so fucking much. Sincerely.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
JFC Thank you so fucking much.
My daughter is hyperlexic and taught herself to read with freaking subtitles.
She's been having trouble in math.
Duly noted.
Thank you so fucking much. Sincerely.
My daughter is hyperlexic and taught herself to read with freaking subtitles.
She's been having trouble in math.
Duly noted.
Thank you so fucking much. Sincerely.