Dad: that’s good, but you need to have space between the words.
Me: *confusedly starts adding stars to my sentences*
Dad: aha, no, not that kind of space
Me: the space needle?
Dad: no, like you need to put nothing between the words
Me: that’s what I’m doing!
Dad: *sweating* ah, but not that kind of nothing..
Baby me with fiction: I know this story front to back. I could quote whole chapters to you. I know these characters well enough to have imaginary conversations with them. Any trivia you ask I can answer.
Baby me with nonfiction: Uuuuh it was talking about [topic] or something… there was a picture of a thing.