Ask Sebastian Esposito, 9, to write a word, and he might ask which language you’d like it in.
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you → ask → it
While many children his age are still mastering one language, this New Mexico boy can write in 10.
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Well, that’s not all.
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He might even ask you if you have a preferred font.
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He has mastered a dozen fonts.
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His favourite is Abadi, a clean sans-serif typeface that looks a lot like Helvetica.
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He goes by the username ‘@litttle.einstein’ and showcases his wide range of talents there!
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Sebastian was diagnosed with
autism at the age of 3, according to The Post, but that has never stood in the way of his talents.
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He knows the periodic table by heart and can even recreate the logos of popular brands, including Disney and Ray-Ban, from memory.
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One of his videos, in which he shares his love for fonts, took the internet by storm in 2022, garnering over 20 million views.
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Solving a puzzle at 18 months
It really started with a wooden letter puzzle.
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When Sebastian was about 18 months old, he kept arranging the pieces into words such as ‘cat’ and ‘dog’.
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His parents, Ryan Esposito and Amanda, quickly noticed this.
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By the age of 2, Sebastian could read and write around 200 words, according to his parents, as reported by ABC News.
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Sebastian has hyperlexia, a condition in which a child reads far above their age level and often fixates on letters or numbers.
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He is in love with languages and letters
Sebastian now writes in 10 languages.
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He has memorised the Greek, German, Armenian and Turkish alphabets, and he learnt the entire Russian alphabet before most children his age could recite the English alphabet!
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He can also recite the periodic table without any trouble.
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His parents say he learns mostly on his own.
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They provide markers, chalk, puzzles and educational videos, and he does the rest.
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Beyond language, Sebastian is also obsessed with geography.
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He can name the capitals of all 50 US states and identify the flags of countries around the world by their shapes alone!
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His father has a habit of turning these moments into jokes.
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When Sebastian tackled a maths problem that would stump most adults, Ryan joked that if the boy solved it, he would become part of a secret society.
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“Every parent thinks their child is special.
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But I knew Sebastian was really special,” he told the outlet.
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“When he started to spell words backwards, I thought maybe he was an alien.
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And he picked up all these words so quickly.
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We think he has a photographic memory.
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Anything he sees, he just stores in his head and never forgets it.”
The virality
Amanda and Ryan Esposito started posting videos to raise awareness about autism and hyperlexia.
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They never expected the clips to go viral.
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The account, @litttle.einstein, now has hundreds of thousands of followers, and some videos have drawn close to 20 million views.
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“We just wanted to show that there’s a whole community of kids who have hyperlexia,” Ryan told the broadcaster.
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That community is the reason the family keeps going.
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He struggles to communicate verbally, which makes the pen and chalk more than a hobby.
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They’re how he communicates.
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Amanda puts it simply: “Some kids love their trucks and dinosaurs, and he loves his markers and chalk.”
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The Aporia
