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Yep, lack of support is really hard.

For many years as a kid I was only able make vowel sounds. Which is weird but also demonstrates that there is a reason why vowels and consonants are separated. What's particularly weird is that apparently most other people had it the other way, only being able to make consonant sounds. I could read as well as a child many years older, but I couldn't say the words. My teacher only progressed me from the first reading books because I was getting more and more frustrated, i.e. bored with them. One day, suddenly I found myself able to speak (I don't remember this specifically) and I rapidly moved up the various levels of books until I was then frustrated because the teachers wouldn't let me go past the "smart" kids in the class reading ranks even though I could read every single book in the set. A year or two later at the age of 9 I was assessed and found to have the reading capability of a 16 year old, and they didn't assess further than that.