Normal or not?
I try not to overanalyze my LO since he’s only 2.5 but this is something that’s really been making me think. He has an OBSESSION with ABCs. It’s starting to seem abnormal to me. And like any toddler, he’s been through his phases of different obsessions but this one seems to be a bit different. He can recite them forwards, backwards, phonetically (I think that’s what it’s called, where you make the sounds of the letters, he can tell you what letter a word starts with, HE TAUGHT HIMSELF HOW TO SIGN THE LETTERS!, well Jack Hartman did on YT but you catch my drift. He obsesses over his letter magnets, gets pissed off if they’re not in order, or if they don’t match as he has multiple sets due to losing some. If he sees a word written he has to spell it out. He’ll sit there quietly and sign the alphabet with his little hand.
Is this normal? His obsession started about two months ago and hasn’t quit and doesn’t seem like it will anytime soon. Then I read about hyperlexia and went down a small rabbit hole trying to decipher if this is similar to that, although he isn’t reading yet. Idk I guess I’m just looking for insight. Has anyone ever dealt with this or seen this?