The Lovecraft subreddit hates me. in The Big, Blue, House. Year two.

I’ve been reading Lovecraft since I was introduced to his stories in eighth grade. I’ve always read faster, and more easily, than my peers. It’s called hyperlexia, and it’s common among people with Aspergers. At least one book has been written by professional psychologists postulating that old Howard himself had Asperger’s, but being neurotypical, they only see the clinical traits. He had so many issues that resonate highly with a neurodiverse person. But that’s another entry.

Screenshots of the stupidity of the day:

No, I’m not hiding my Reddit account. I refuse to cower in the face of bullies.

In Reading classes, in grammar school, teachers would sometimes go around the class having each student read the next paragraph in a given story from the book. When they got to me, there were invariably other kids yelling, “Tell her to slow down!”.

And I am by no means alone. The autism and Asperger’s subreddits are full of hyperlexic readers, I’m sure. And what about the best living authors, people like Neil Gaiman, and Stephen King. Do the plebes downvoting me think that they have trouble reading H.P. Lovecraft? Or Byron? Or Clark Ashton Smith? Hell, I know there at least a few regulars HERE with beefy vocabularies.

Maybe my complaint should be less about my personal downvotes, and more about the general lack of literacy among the r/Lovecraft populace. I am both perplexed, and disappointed. But at least I’m not an abject idiot, so I guess there’s that.