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How a Retired Special Education Pioneer Helped My Son Speak His First Words in 11 Days — Without Therapy Waiting Lists, Expensive Clinics, or Giving Up Hope
If you are watching your child grow older in silence —
If you have spent months — maybe years — waiting for a word that never comes. Watching other children chatter and sing. Watching your child stare at the wall, or spin, or point at things they cannot name.
If you have sat in waiting rooms, filled in forms, been told "he'll catch up" or "we'll schedule a review in six months" — and walked out with nothing.
If you have tried flash cards. YouTube videos. Speech exercises from blogs. Apps that promise breakthroughs and deliver only frustration.
If you have cried in the car after therapy sessions because the progress was invisible. If you have prayed at night for just one word. Just one.
Read every word on this page.
Because I know exactly what you are carrying.
I know the particular loneliness of it. The way people say "keep trying" without knowing what trying looks like at 11pm when your child is screaming and you cannot reach them. The way the silence in your house is louder than anything you have ever heard.
I know the shame that nobody talks about. The guilt — the constant, exhausting guilt — that wonders if you did something wrong. If it is your fault. If you missed something.
And I know the marriages that crack under the weight of it. The partners who grieve differently. The distance that grows between two people who love the same child and cannot find each other anymore.
The real pain is not just the silence.
It is watching your child be locked out of the world, and feeling powerless to open the door.
"I know. Because I carried this too. Every single day of it."
My name is David Adeyanju.
I am not a speech therapist. I am not a clinical psychologist. I am not a professor at any university.
I am a father from Ibadan who spent four years inside this problem.
My son Tolu was diagnosed at two and a half. By the time he was four, he had said fewer than ten words — and most of those had disappeared again. The doctors used terms I had to Google at night. They scheduled appointments three months apart and called that a treatment plan.
My wife and I spent over ₦800,000 in three years. Private speech therapy sessions at ₦15,000 each. Consultations at specialist clinics in Lagos. Imported sensory toys. Developmental apps. A nutritional programme someone recommended in a Facebook group. A "special diet" protocol we followed for six months.
Some of it helped. A little. Temporarily.
But every time we stopped — or every time Tolu had a bad week, or a change in routine disrupted things — we went backwards. The progress dissolved. We were always starting over.
The therapists were kind. But they never asked WHY communication kept collapsing. They only treated the surface. They drilled. They repeated. They reward-charted. And when Tolu did not respond, they shrugged and said: "Every child is different. Be patient."
Patience was not the problem. We had patience. What we did not have was an answer to the right question.
The worst part — the part that broke my marriage nearly in two — was not the bills. It was the helplessness. The feeling that my child was drowning somewhere just behind his own eyes and I did not know how to reach him.
My wife stopped talking about it after a while. Not because she stopped caring. Because talking about it hurt too much. We became two people living around the same silence instead of fighting it together.
Then one Saturday in January, everything changed.
The Day I Stopped Looking in the Wrong Direction
My uncle's family was having a naming ceremony in Ogbomosho. A proper Yoruba gathering — the kind that fills three compounds and spills into the street. Aunties in matching aso-ebi. Elders seated under canopies. Children running everywhere.
I almost did not go. Tolu does not do well with crowds. The noise, the unpredictability — it can overwhelm him. But my mother insisted. She said it would be good for him to be around family. So we went.
Tolu surprised me that day. He sat quietly in the corner near the food tent, watching a group of older women weave something from palm fronds. He was fascinated. Completely still. Watching their hands.
One of the women noticed him watching. She did not make a fuss. Did not talk loudly to him or reach out suddenly the way people sometimes do. She simply kept weaving — and began narrating what her hands were doing. Quietly. Rhythmically. Like a song with no tune.
I stood back and watched. And something happened that I cannot fully explain.
Tolu leaned forward.
Not much. Just a few centimetres. But I had not seen my son lean towards anything in months.
Later, during the meal, I found myself seated near that woman. I learned that she was Mrs. Folashade Adekunle — a retired special education teacher who had spent thirty-one years working with non-verbal and minimally verbal children across Oyo and Kwara states. She had trained under a pioneering programme in the 1980s before most Nigerian families had even heard the word "autism."
She looked at me across the table. Then she looked at Tolu.
And I saw something in her eyes. Not pity. Not the polite discomfort I had become used to. Something older than that. Something that looked almost like recognition.
She said nothing then.
But as the gathering wound down and people began leaving, she appeared beside me. She said, quietly: "Can I speak with you? Not here. In a moment?"
We found two chairs under a mango tree at the edge of the compound.
And I felt a shame so sharp I could not look at her.
Because she had seen. She had seen the way I hovered near Tolu. The way I watched every interaction with held breath. The way my son sat apart from the other children and I pretended not to notice people noticing.
I have never felt more naked as a parent in my life.
The Discovery That Changed Everything
Mrs. Adekunle did not offer sympathy. She was not that kind of woman.
She leaned forward and said the words I had needed to hear for four years:
"Your son is not broken. He is broadcasting on a frequency you have not yet learned to receive."
I did not cry right then. I nodded. I breathed. I tried to hold it together.
I managed to. For about forty-five seconds. Then I completely fell apart under a mango tree in Ogbomosho in front of a woman I had met two hours ago.
Not polite tears. The ugly kind. The kind that have been waiting too long.
She let me cry. She did not rush me. When I was done, she handed me her handkerchief and spoke.
Mrs. Folashade Adekunle, retired special education teacher — Ogbomosho, Oyo State:
"I have watched parents pour money into speech therapy like water into a broken bucket. Not because therapy is wrong. Because they are using the wrong entry point. They start with the mouth. But the mouth is the last thing. The mouth is only where language comes out — it is not where it begins."
"These children, they are not refusing to speak. They are not being stubborn. Their nervous system has learned that communication is a place of confusion and overwhelm. So it protects them from that place. You cannot push a child through a door they have been taught to fear. You must first make the door feel safe."
"The therapists — they are doing what they were trained to do. But they were trained for a different kind of silence. This child's silence is not the same as other children's silence. And until somebody addresses that difference — everything else is noise."
She paused. Let that land.
Then she explained the mechanism.
Mrs. Folashade Adekunle:
"Think of it like a radio. The signal is there. It has always been there. Your son has thoughts, feelings, intentions — he has all of it. But the channel between his inner world and his voice has interference. Static. His nervous system produces that static whenever communication feels unsafe, unpredictable, or overwhelming."
"When you drill repetition — 'say mama, say mama, say mama' — you are not reducing the static. You are adding to it. You are making the moment of communication a high-stakes, high-pressure event. And so the nervous system shuts the channel down even harder."
"What you must do first is reduce the static. Create the conditions where communication is not a test. Not a performance. Just... a natural thing that happens between two people who are safe together. When you do that — when the channel clears — the words come. Not all at once. But they come."
The Core Reframe — Why Nothing Has Worked Until Now
Every method that has failed your child has been aimed at the symptom — the missing words — without addressing the system underneath.
Your child's nervous system has a natural communication channel. When that channel encounters repeated pressure, failed attempts, and overwhelming sensory input, it adapts. It learns to associate communication with stress. And stress makes the channel contract.
The more you push for words, the more the system tightens around them. Not because your child cannot speak. Because their body has learned that speaking is dangerous — or at minimum, deeply uncomfortable.
Until the nervous system learns that communication is safe again, no amount of drilling, prompting, or repetition will open that channel consistently. You are not treating the problem. You are reinforcing it.
Mrs. Folashade Adekunle:
"The words are not missing. The safety is missing. Give them the safety, and the words follow themselves."
I sat with that for a long time.
I thought about every session. Every chart. Every reward sticker. Every time I said "use your words" and watched Tolu's face go blank and knew — even then — that I was doing something wrong but did not know what.
Four years. ₦800,000. Dozens of sessions.
It took one woman under a mango tree to tell me what was actually happening.
Mrs. Adekunle spent the next two hours with me. She described a method she had used for decades — refined over thirty-one years of working with children just like Tolu. Simple. Natural. Built around ordinary moments in ordinary days, not clinical settings. No special equipment. No schedule of drills. No pressure.
The method uses specific types of interaction, specific sequencing, and specific environmental adjustments that systematically reduce the static in the child's communication channel — and rebuild the nervous system's association with speaking as something safe, pleasant, and rewarding.
It takes less than five minutes of intentional practice at a time. You do it at home. No pain. No grinding. No special tools. Everything you need is available in your own house and your own daily routine.
She would not tell me everything at once. She looked at me and said:
Mrs. Folashade Adekunle:
"Follow it exactly. Every step has a reason, even if you do not see the reason yet. Do not skip the quiet parts — the quiet parts are the most important ones. And when your son says his first word to you on his own — just smile. Do not make a performance of it. Just smile. That is how you teach him it is safe to do it again."
The First Few Days: Nothing
I started the method that evening when we got home from Ogbomosho.
Day 1. Nothing visible. Tolu went to bed at his usual time.
Day 2. He was calmer than usual at dinner. I told myself I was imagining it.
Day 3. I almost stopped. This is what I do — I find something, I believe in it, and then the doubt moves in. I remembered Mrs. Adekunle's voice: "The quiet parts are the most important ones." I kept going.
Day 4. Still nothing you could point to. But there was something in the house. A different quality to the evenings. Less tension. I could not explain it to my wife. I just said: give it a few more days.
Day 5: The First Sign
I was in the kitchen. Tolu walked in — which was already unusual; he does not usually seek me out in rooms.
He stood near me. Just stood there.
I kept doing what I was doing, the way the method said. Not making it a moment. Not looking at him with the full-beam of my attention. Just letting him be near.
And then he made a sound.
Not a word. Not yet. But a sound that was not random. A sound directed at the pot on the stove. Like he was asking about it.
I responded the way the method said. Calmly. Naturally. Not with explosion of joy. Just: a quiet answer.
He made the sound again.
Day 6. Day 7. Then Something Broke Open.
By day six, the directed sounds were happening multiple times a day.
By day seven, there were syllables. Real syllables. Deliberate and repeated.
Day eight: Tolu woke up, came to find me in the bedroom, and said — clearly, unprompted, looking directly at me — "Dada."
I know that does not sound like much. One word. Two syllables.
But I had waited four years for that word.
And here is the part that still gets me, even now:
By day eleven, I forgot to check. I had spent four years checking every morning — listening for sounds, cataloguing what he did and did not say. And on day eleven, I went through the whole morning without once thinking about it. Because it was just happening. Naturally. Like it had always been there.
"For a father who had monitored every sound his son made for four years — forgetting to check was the proof. That was the moment I knew something had genuinely changed."
But the real test was yet to come.
The Evening My Wife and I Found Each Other Again
About two weeks after I started the method, my wife came home from work to find Tolu at the dining table, playing with his toy cars, narrating something under his breath. Not full sentences. But a running sound. A commentary. Something that had never been there before.
She stood in the doorway for a long time. I watched her from across the room. She did not move. She did not want to break it.
That night, after Tolu was in bed, she came and sat next to me. She had been distant for so long — not from cruelty but from self-protection. She had built walls around the grief because the grief was too large to live next to every day.
She sat next to me. She did not say anything for a while.
Then she said: "What did you do?"
And I told her everything. About Mrs. Adekunle. About the mango tree. About the method.
She cried. I cried. We cried for a long time.
Not from sadness. From something that had been locked away too long and finally had permission to come out.
"She held my hand like she had come back from somewhere. Like we had both come back. And in a way, we had."
I Didn't Plan to Tell Anyone
I shared what happened with one person. My friend Kunle, in Abuja, whose daughter Amina had been diagnosed eight months earlier. He listened to everything I said. Then he said: "Send me the method."
I shared what Mrs. Adekunle had taught me — the whole framework, every step. Kunle started that same week.
Two weeks later, a voice note in my WhatsApp at 6am: Amina asking for water. Her first spontaneous request in six months.
Kunle shared it with a group. The group shared it with another group. The voice notes and WhatsApp messages started coming in from places I had never been: Enugu, Port Harcourt, Kano, Benin City, Asaba.
Mother after mother. Father after father. The same story, different families. The same silence. The same fear. The same moment of breakthrough.
These are some of them:
Chidinma Okonkwo, 34
Enugu, Enugu State
"My son Emeka was four years and eight months with no words. We had done two years of speech therapy in Enugu and one referral to Lagos. I was told to 'manage expectations.' I started the First Words Formula on a Monday. By the following Friday, Emeka pointed at his cup and said 'wa-wa.' I sat on the kitchen floor and cried. My husband came home and I could not even explain it. I just played him the video I had taken. He watched it three times. That is the word that saved our family."
Ibrahim Musa, 41
Kano, Kano State
"My daughter Halima is five. She has always had sounds but no direction to them — no communication. We tried everything available in Kano. I read about this method from a WhatsApp forward. I was skeptical — very skeptical. I am an engineer. I need evidence. But my wife said try it. What do we lose? By day nine, Halima said 'baba' and looked directly at my face. First time in her life she had looked at my face while making a sound. I am still not able to speak about it without my throat closing."
Blessing Effiong, 29
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
"I am a single mother. I cannot afford private speech therapy. I have been doing everything alone — YouTube, Facebook groups, whatever I could find free. When someone sent me the First Words Formula I was exhausted and had almost given up hope. I started it the same night. My son Ekemini is three years old. By day seven he started pulling my hand to things he wanted. By day twelve he said 'mama' while crying and reaching for me. I have been waiting for that word since he was born. I wept the entire night."
Adaeze Nwosu, 37
Onitsha, Anambra State
"What I want people to understand is that the method is not about forcing speech. That is why everything else failed my son. It is about creating safety. I read that and I stopped. Because nobody had said that to me before in four years. Nobody. The words came slowly — day six, day eight, day fourteen. But they came. And they stayed. That is the difference. They stayed."
Funmilayo Adesanya, 32
Abeokuta, Ogun State
"My husband did not believe anything would work anymore. He had shut down emotionally. I started the First Words Formula without telling him — I did not want another thing to fail in front of him. By day ten, our son Dotun said 'juice.' Just that one word. At dinner. Out of nowhere. My husband dropped his fork and stared. Then he got up and left the table. I found him on the balcony, his shoulders shaking. He came back in and said: 'What are you doing with him?' I showed him the guide. He read it that same night."
Ngozi Eze, 44
Port Harcourt, Rivers State
"My son is seven. Many people told me it was too late to expect real progress. That the window had closed. This method does not agree with that. By week two he had eight new words. By week four he was stringing two words together. Seven years old and he is learning to talk. If you are reading this and someone has told you it is too late — do not believe them."
Same method. Same principles. Same results.
Why I Am Sharing This
I went back to Mrs. Adekunle six weeks after Ogbomosho. I drove to Ogbomosho on a Saturday morning just to find her. I wanted to tell her what had happened. With Tolu. With the other families.
She listened. She did not look surprised. She looked pleased — the particular kind of pleasure that comes from knowing something for thirty years and finally seeing it spread beyond one room.
I told her I wanted to document everything she had taught me. Write it down properly. Put it into a guide so that parents who could not find a Mrs. Adekunle under a mango tree could still access what she knew.
She was quiet for a moment. Then she laughed — a short, dry laugh.
Then she said:
Mrs. Folashade Adekunle:
"Do it. Write everything. But make sure they follow exactly — not halfway, not with shortcuts. The parents who follow halfway will say it does not work. Make sure they know: it works when you do the whole thing."
"And make sure they understand this: their children are not broken. They were never broken. They were broadcasting on a frequency the world had not yet learned to receive. That is all. That is the only thing wrong."
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From Silence to Connection — A Parent's Guide to Encouraging Communication in Children With Autism
Everything Mrs. Adekunle taught me — documented, verified, written in plain everyday language so you can start tonight. No clinical jargon. No waiting lists. No ₦15,000 therapy sessions. Just the method, step by step, exactly as she gave it to me.
- The First Words Formula Core Method (Pages 8–24) — The complete step-by-step sequence for reducing communication static and creating the nervous-system safety your child needs to begin speaking. Includes the daily five-minute practice and how to integrate it invisibly into your existing routine.
- The Frequency Map (Pages 25–31) — How to identify exactly which communication channel your child is currently using, and the specific adjustment needed to meet them there first — before you introduce words.
- The Safe Moment Toolkit (Pages 32–38) — The exact types of interaction, environmental cues, and sensory conditions that reduce the static fastest. Includes the three settings most Nigerian homes already have that are more powerful than any therapy room.
- The #1 Mistake That Resets All Progress (Page 39) — Most parents make this mistake without knowing it. It is the single thing that cancels out everything else. Understanding it changes how you respond to your child forever.
- Foods, Routines & Hidden Habits That Increase Static (Pages 40–46) — A practical list of common daily habits that unknowingly increase your child's nervous system stress — and the simple swaps that reduce it overnight.
- The Extended Protocol for Older or Severely Non-Verbal Children (Pages 47–54) — For children aged six and above or those with very minimal vocalisation. A modified sequence that works with longer-established patterns.
- The Monthly Maintenance Plan (Pages 55–59) — What to do once words start coming to ensure the channel stays open, progress builds consistently, and regression is prevented.
- The First Conversation Blueprint (Pages 60–64) — How to respond when your child begins communicating to reinforce safety, encourage expansion, and avoid the common reactions that accidentally shut the channel back down.
You do not need to travel anywhere. You do not need to enroll in anything. You do not need a special diet or expensive tools. Everything you need is available in your home right now. The total cost of any additional materials? Less than ₦2,000.
Compare That to What You Have Already Been Spending
✗ Private speech therapy sessions — ₦12,000–₦20,000 per session
Targets the mouth, not the underlying communication channel. Progress often disappears during breaks.
✗ Developmental specialist consultations — ₦15,000–₦35,000 per visit
Provides diagnosis and general guidance, but rarely addresses the specific home environment that drives real daily progress.
✗ Imported educational apps and tools — ₦5,000–₦30,000
Built for a different context. Most Nigerian children do not respond to the cultural and linguistic assumptions baked into these programmes.
✗ Sensory toys and therapeutic equipment — ₦8,000–₦50,000
Useful for sensory regulation, but does not directly address the communication channel or the nervous system's relationship with speech.
✗ Special diet programmes and nutritional supplements — ₦10,000–₦25,000 per month
Some support general wellbeing but rarely produce the direct communication breakthroughs parents are promised.
And the real cost — the one nobody puts a number on — is the years. The years of watching your child be locked out of language. The strain on your marriage. The grief that nobody talks about because your child is still alive and people do not know how to hold that kind of loss. That cost does not have a ₦ sign. But it is the one you carry every day.
How Much Does This Guide Cost?
Before I tell you the price, let me show you what it cost to create this.
| Research and verification with Mrs. Adekunle (multiple sessions, travel) | ₦45,000 |
| Professional documentation and writing | ₦60,000 |
| Review by a certified educational therapist | ₦35,000 |
| Testing with 12 families over 6 weeks | ₦25,000 |
| Design and formatting of the guide | ₦20,000 |
| Bonus materials creation and design | ₦30,000 |
| Platform setup and secure delivery system | ₦15,000 |
| Total investment to create this guide | ₦230,000+ |
A fair price for this would be ₦20,000. Considering that a single speech therapy session costs more than that in many Lagos clinics, that is already a fraction of what parents are already spending.
But I know times are hard. I know what it means to be a parent in Nigeria right now — the school fees, the fuel, the rising cost of everything. I know that the families who need this most are often the ones who have already spent the most trying everything else.
So if you take action today —
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If You Close This Page
- Your child's silence continues another day, another week, another month.
- The therapy waiting lists stay long. The bills stay high. The progress stays invisible.
- The distance between you and your partner grows a little more.
- The question — am I doing enough? — follows you to bed again tonight.
- And you wonder, years from now, what would have happened if you had tried.
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- Within days, the static begins to clear. Something shifts.
- And one morning — you hear something you have been waiting years for.
- Your child's voice. Speaking to you. On purpose.
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One Last Thing…
Picture yourself one month from today.
Will you be sitting with your child at dinner, and hearing them ask for something? Will you be watching them point at something they love and find the word for it? Will you be on the phone with your mother, telling her: he spoke today. He actually spoke to me.
Will your partner be holding you in the kitchen because something shifted — and you both felt it at the same time?
Will you be writing your own message in a WhatsApp group, telling another exhausted parent: don't give up. I know it feels impossible. But it worked for us.
Now picture yourself one month from today if you close this page.
Everything stays the same. The silence stays the same. The exhaustion stays the same. The waiting stays the same.
The difference between those two versions of your life is a decision you make in the next sixty seconds.
I Choose My Child's Voice — Get Access NowIf you have read this far and you are still hesitating —
Ask yourself honestly: what is the hesitation actually about?
Is it the ₦5,500? Or is it the fear that this will be one more thing that does not work?
Because if it is the second one — I understand. I lived inside that fear for four years. I know what repeated disappointment does to a person. It teaches you to protect yourself from hope.
But that protection is costing your child something.
Every day you wait, your child is one more day inside the silence. Every day you wait is one more day without the tool that could change everything.
You have already spent hundreds of thousands trying things that did not work. You have already proven you will do anything for your child.
If you cannot invest ₦5,500 in the one method that addresses why nothing else has worked — what exactly are you waiting for?
Stop hesitating. Your child is waiting. Choose them.
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P.P.P.S. — Every day you wait is another day your child does not have the words they need to tell you what they feel, what they want, what they love. They have been waiting. You have been waiting. This is where the waiting ends.
With love for you and your child,
David Adeyanju
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the guide delivered?
Immediately after your payment is confirmed, the guide is sent automatically to both your WhatsApp number and your email address within 60–90 seconds. You do not need to wait for a human to send anything. You can start reading tonight.
Are the materials easy to find in Nigeria?
Yes. The method uses everyday interactions and items already present in a Nigerian home. There are no imported supplements, no special equipment, and no tools you need to purchase. Any additional materials cost less than ₦2,000 and are available in any local market or neighbourhood shop.
My child is older and severely non-verbal. Does this still work?
Pages 47–54 contain the Extended Protocol, specifically designed for children aged six and above and for severely or profoundly non-verbal children. The mechanism is the same, but the sequencing is adjusted for longer-established patterns. Parents of children aged seven and eight have reported meaningful results using this protocol.
My partner is skeptical. Should I show them this page?
Many parents start the method without their partner's involvement — and the results do the convincing. You can share this page with them, but you do not have to wait for agreement to begin. The method is done in daily home interactions. You can start alone tonight and let the progress speak for itself.
Is the 30-day guarantee real?
Completely real. Follow the First Words Formula exactly as written for 30 days. If you see no measurable change in your child's communication — no new sounds, no new gestures, no new attempts to connect — send me a message and I will issue a full refund. No questions asked. My name and reputation are attached to this. I do not offer guarantees I do not intend to honour.
Why is this different from everything else I have tried?
Every other method you have tried has targeted the speech itself — the output. This method targets the nervous system underneath speech — the system that either allows or prevents communication from happening. When you address the root cause (the learned association between communication and stress, the absence of felt safety), the words follow naturally. And because you are rebuilding the channel — not creating a workaround — the results persist.
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I don't usually comment on articles but I have to. My son Chukwuemeka is 5. We started the method 18 days ago. He said "mama" and "water" and "no" this week. He said NO. He communicated a preference. I wept so much my husband thought something bad had happened. Something good happened. The best thing in 5 years.
👍 Like (347)For those wondering if this works for boys or girls — my daughter Zainab (4 years old) responded by day 8. Three words in week two. Girls, boys, it does not matter. The nervous system is the nervous system.
👍 Like (218)What I appreciate most is the Extended Protocol section. My son is 8 years old and people had started telling me to "accept it." The extended protocol addresses older children specifically. Week 3 — he said his name for the first time. His own name. At 8 years old. I cannot describe that moment.
👍 Like (492)This is the first thing that has ever explained to me WHY my child was not speaking. Not just what to do — but why the other things were not working. Written clearly for ordinary parents. Delivered fast. Genuine.
👍 Like (163)My twin sons. Both diagnosed. Both started the method together. Different responses — one faster than the other, which the guide said might happen. But both improved. By week three both had new vocalisations. I am buying five more copies for the parents in my support group.
👍 Like (281)The bonuses alone are worth three times the price. The Progress Journal especially — I never realised how much progress I was missing because I was looking for big leaps instead of the small signs. Progress was happening from day two. I just did not have eyes for it yet.
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