bogleech:

wait WHAT??? They can do that!?! And like every single parent of a baby that I’ve ever known just had no idea what their baby wanted half the time and just assumed there was no way around it?!! That they’re just dumb nonsense crying machines with just kind of “cranky for whatever reason, who knows” emotional states?!! They could have just taught them some non-verbal words all along??!!! And it works as young as six months?! An entire period of ours lives at which we are capable of clear two-way communication is just fucking unknown to most of society?!?!