Tank is now three years old. We have always known that he is advanced, and we have considered private, academic-accelerated physics-immersion preschool. But we were concerned it would not challenge him. I mean, this kid has his own language! In this language he has developed and nobody can interpret because we are just not smart enough, he tells epic stories, delivers eloquent monologues, and roars like nobody's business. What other spoken language in the human world has a roar as a means of expression? None of them! You have to cross over into the animal kingdom to find a roar. This. Kid. Is. A-mazing.
As he has aged to catch up with his heightened mental capacities, he has shown an awareness of social consciousness and has realized that he has to dial it back, take it down several notches, and communicate with others on their level. As such, he is starting to translate his language to American English at an alarmingly rapid rate.
A particularly proud moment came the other day, when he was rewriting a computer game on my laptop. The computer was not responding to his commands, probably because it is a year old and WAY behind Tank's level of programming. Anyway, he got frustrated, and he succinctly summed up his feelings, translated them into American English, and yelled at the computer screen, "AW, SH!"
We are expecting his first college acceptance letter any day now.
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