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Bear with me guys, but hopefully it's worth the read.
>Be back in gen 1 days
>6 year old me playing Yellow, watching the anime, chilling
>Parents pass it off as generic kid shit
>Younger brother by two years is literally autistic and mute, but would only talk to me and not my parents or anyone else, and even then only in mumbles that I could just barely understand
>Parents are deeply worried about his development, taking him to child psychologists all the time for advice
>Gen 2 comes along
>Watching Johto Journeys premier episode after school one day
>Bro comes in, silent as usual, sits next to me
>Starts chuckling as Team Rocket get their shit pushed in by a Totodile
>I'm surprised he engaged with it, so I show him all the annuals and stickerbooks of Pokemon I ha back then
>He starts reading that stuff all the time and begins talking with me, asking about different pokemon when we watch the show or he reads books
