That actually reminds me of something! When I was about six or seven, I thought "cookie" was the best word ever! At eleven, I thought "ecstatic" was a word I'd made up. Same with the word "bonafide" when I was seven or eight. (since I'd made it up, I got to assign a meaning to it, and it meant "shiny!!!!")
This reminds me of how I used to be obsessed with the letter Q and any word containing it, regardless of whether or not I knew its meaning. "Equipment", "quote", "queue"...
Similarly, there was at least one time when I didn't want to say the number 8 solely because it sounds like "ate", so I kept saying "a number" instead. I also used to hate the word "shrink" and think that the word "appetite" was a cuss word, both for no apparent reason.
Those were all after I stopped having therapy due to my family not being able to afford it anymore, but my therapy notes reveal that when I named the dolls in the dollhouse (yes, a dollhouse - can we move on?) we used for pretend play, I wanted to name them after my family, but I was reluctant to say my own name and just said "people" at first - my therapist had to suggest "Matthew". Weird, I know!
And I'm not even done reading my therapy notes yet, so there may have been more things like these. I'll let you know if I find any. :)
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This reminds me of how I used to be obsessed with the letter Q and any word containing it, regardless of whether or not I knew its meaning. "Equipment", "quote", "queue"...
Similarly, there was at least one time when I didn't want to say the number 8 solely because it sounds like "ate", so I kept saying "a number" instead. I also used to hate the word "shrink" and think that the word "appetite" was a cuss word, both for no apparent reason.
Those were all after I stopped having therapy due to my family not being able to afford it anymore, but my therapy notes reveal that when I named the dolls in the dollhouse (yes, a dollhouse - can we move on?) we used for pretend play, I wanted to name them after my family, but I was reluctant to say my own name and just said "people" at first - my therapist had to suggest "Matthew". Weird, I know!
And I'm not even done reading my therapy notes yet, so there may have been more things like these. I'll let you know if I find any. :)
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