Do your littles write?

Can your little ones write beyond their age?
I have a little one who can text. She spells a lot of words correctly. But today when my T asked her how old she was she said she is only 5. I think she also colors at an age older than 5. I think she acts more like she's 8-ish. It doesn't make sense to me. Maybe she is lying. But why would she lie?

My little, who is 8, can act much more mature than her age. She's able to txt, but has spelling problems unless an older alter or myself helps her. However, without help, she's able to process a lot more than normal 8-year-olds and comprehend a lot more. But she still has the general mind-set of an 8 year old and acts like she's 8.

Your little sounds like she's able to do things she shouldn't be able to do because of default. She may be going off of other memories. My 8 year old shares all the memories I do, they're just not as clear. Just like my childhood memories aren't as clear to me, but to her they feel like they happened yesterday. Your little might be doing the same and learning from things you do every day without you knowing it. It could also be that she's going off of instincts. You still have the body and developed mind of an older person, even if she has the mind-set of being 5. Your fingers still remember how to txt, your mind might auto-correct spelling, and so she can do these things as well. Another possibility is that she has the potential to be 8, but she either wants to be younger due to her main mind-set or something is holding her back. Such as, something traumatic may have happened at that age, and she's unable to move on from it even though she's smarter than the average 5 year old.

Either way, I highly doubt your little is lying. Hope this helps, and if it doesn't, hope this site in general does.

Some of mine do, and those that do tend to write and comprehend well beyond their years. Our 9yo reads and writes at about the level of a 10yo, and our 5yo at the level of roughly 9-10yo. I think in the older one's case, it's because we have always learned a little ahead of our age level (she was host for a few years at around that time), and the younger one has always had to be more mature then others at her age (as someone who went through abuse).

Littles don't develop the same way a child does. There's nothing wrong about a little being able to comprehend, read and write much better then their age (:

Ok, so I think what you are saying is its quite possible to have some littles who can read and write like an older person, and other littles who can't, but regardless their mindsets in how they view their world will be more age appropriate. Is that it? Emotionally they will think like a child, even if they have some advanced intelligence?

Alice writes. I've just got all my alters a journal each to give them all somewhere to communicate more positively. Alice writes but it is very laboured and slow as if she is writing through me. I used this point as an attack on myself with the denial rake by saying if my alter really was a child then she wouldn't be able to write. But I am settled that being co-conscious she is going to be able to walk and write like I do.

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A lot of my Littles can write beyond their age, too. I agree with what others have said- that memories held and co-consciousness allows for this.

Interestingly, one of my Littles is delayed in her counting. She is four but can count only up to 20 or so, and only knows her ABC's to D or E! I have no idea why this is. Perhaps I underestimate "outside kids" and so internalized this lack of knowledge, if that makes sense.

One of my other Littles, also four, is pretty advanced at drawing. Again, I would assume (as others have said) that this is due to previous memories and co-consciousness.

Because of the way I switch, my littles have pretty much the same abilities as me as far as recounting the alphabet and stuff goes. They act like kids but are way beyond their maturity. Little Sophie for example is really, really sexual. So I don't think just because an alter is a certain age that means they have certain abilities or whatever.

Everyone in our system shares certain basic skills and knowledge. We're co-con with certain memory banks that everyone can access. Our littles can generally spell just as well as we can, and they know basic math, as well. There are exceptions, but that seems to be the usual.
Emotionally, they're all over the place depending on how much time they've spent out and how much of the childhood they remember.

I agree with the last two posters - my boyfriend has two child alters, an eight year old and a ten year old, both of whom while emotionally acting their age, can function at the age of the physical body due to co-consciousness. For example, if early in the morning I said, 'We're out of milk, go get some.' and only one of the kids were awake, one of them could drive the truck to the store safely and get it just as well as one of the alter old enough to drive could. And normal children certainly can't do that. o_o

Plus Johann was reading at a sixth grade level when he was six years old due to growing up on the road and always having his nose in a book, so reading and writing/spelling aren't an issue for the younger one's.

I agree with that, too. It's more the emotional age that defines the little more than the abilities/intellect in my opinion, which is why some don't like to view them as proper "children."

I read the one article that said they're "stylized ego packets" and was like "Hun. You're an asshat. You know that? It ain't the intellect that makes em kids."

Though I might be biased. We could read silently, "hearing" the words in our head, by the age of five. ~shrugs~