The complexities of Coluan physical and mental development aren't the easiest thing to explain. Our mental maturation rate makes them wildly different from most other species.
At age 2, I could speak in complex sentences and already understood the fundamentals of particle physics, yet lacked the capacity for basic emotional regulation or the motor coordination to properly feed myself. I wrote the first of my many theses when I was 3, when I could finally get my stubby baby hands to type properly so I didn't have to keep using time-consuming voice-to-text.
For Coluans, childhood is considered the most harrowing stage of our lives instead of the teen years that many other species lament as difficult. There's nothing more irritating than spending fourteen years of your life being treated like a child when you have the capacity to build a multi-phasic accelerator from toddlerhood onward.
It's more that we mature very quickly in the beginning and then everything slows down after our teen years.
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At age 2, I could speak in complex sentences and already understood the fundamentals of particle physics, yet lacked the capacity for basic emotional regulation or the motor coordination to properly feed myself. I wrote the first of my many theses when I was 3, when I could finally get my stubby baby hands to type properly so I didn't have to keep using time-consuming voice-to-text.
For Coluans, childhood is considered the most harrowing stage of our lives instead of the teen years that many other species lament as difficult. There's nothing more irritating than spending fourteen years of your life being treated like a child when you have the capacity to build a multi-phasic accelerator from toddlerhood onward.
It's more that we mature very quickly in the beginning and then everything slows down after our teen years.