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Her “instincts” just struck me as astounding. She’d been with my SIL and hubby since she was a few months old. Our family is very racially diverse so she grew up seeing people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. She’s very shy to strangers, but at 2 ˝ years old she somehow zeroed in on another Asian girl… within seconds of being at the nursery school. At the time they (parents and teacher) thought it was because she’s tiny and the other girl was less intimidating because she too was small.
Then the Olympics (and a couple more years) gave her the opportunity to verbalize more. I don’t know if she’s feeling different (her younger brother was adopted from Twain) and needs to feel some form of connection. Her parents are very attentive and loving. It’ll take someone smarter than I to figure it out.
Young children see things with such an untainted eye. When my twins were about 2, I was moving a huge mirror (kind that goes on the back of a dresser). My older twin pointed and said “brother”. I propped the mirror against the wall and said “no, this is Matthew.” He was so frustrated, he pointed to the picture on the dresser of himself and said “Matthew” and back at the mirror and said “brother”. It turns out he was right. They are mirror image twins. The image he saw in the mirror looked like his brother, not himself. HOW did he figure that out?
Sorry, off topic, but children are amazing.
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I've been married for 24 years and have four wonderful children.
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