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Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
tumblr's doing some sort of guy fieri thing and I literally don't know if it's an official Fieri thing

But previously they had some sort of ad that autoplayed at the top and users went mental... but also engaged with it A LOT

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Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

The Bloop posted:

I haven't looked in a while but iirc there were some pretty credible studies that while babies can sign before they can talk, doing this delays verbal language in a significant way which is probably not a worthwhile trade-off

My cousin was raised this way due to the fancy popularity of it at the time and they ended up credibly afraid she was mentally delayed due to how long it then took her to develop verbal skills. I might not recommend.

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Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
It might be something where it doesn't actually delay your kid but it might mess them up that people think they are/treat them as mentally delayed as well. My father's mother absolutely was convinced that the cousin was mentally delayed and treated her as such, and extremely scornfully. And though she might be dead, there will be other people like her out there.

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