Fern struggles to read—and I feel her struggle in the depths of my soul. Anubis are blessed with unique neural chemistry that gives each of us the remarkable abilities that humans often envy, but it also comes with a downside. Because of our heightened perception, Anubis are more susceptible to sensory overload from our environment. Since our brains process information at an accelerated rate, it leads to difficulties in decoding written language or understanding symbolic representations like letters. On the one paw, this allows many of us, including myself, to detect subtle details that others
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