My brain immediately went into overdrive. Thinking back, I now noticed that there were a lot of instances that weren’t exactly normal. His mother helping him to find his cup the very first time I saw the family, his hand near constantly on one of his siblings' shoulders, or even just now his hesitant steps on the stairs. Or maybe the fact that he didn’t really participate in any of our writing or reading activities at school without help.
His siblings were also constantly helping him with notes, between classes, in the classes themselves. And a lot of the teachers basically expressly ignored his existence.
I can’t believe that I had never noticed or thought something of it before. If I had, it had been such a fleeting thought that it never really crossed my mind after t
