Kid with PTSD triggered by reading?

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I was going to say I didn't think PTSD fit here, but then something occurred to me.

"Teacher was a little bit of a bully." Hmm...

You know what? Your daughter was a "little bit of a child too." A "bit of a bully" can seem like a very big and bad bully to a child that age. This got me thinking waaaaaay back, to second grade, the first grade I experienced teacher bullying. Her name was "Dick" (do I need to tell you how apropos that was?).

Anyway, she had a very traumatic effect on me, and I was seven. Seven, emotionally, is a lot older than five. So yeah, I can see it now. Not sure if it really qualifies as PTSD, but for damned sure, that kind of treatment could easily cause a downright hatred for reading. Nah, I take it back. Meltdowns associated with it? Yeah, I think you may be right.

Do you have her in therapy? If not, it may be time.

Thanks, Mr Xxxx. I did put that mildly, actually. I'm generally a very easy going person and I went off on that teacher. KB has been in therapy off and on since kindergarten. Even with the advanced vocabulary she still has delays in expressive and pragmatic speech so talk therapy hasn't been possible but she's been in play therapy.

It could be simple defiance toward neurotypicals.

When I was 2 years old, I "guessed" how to read and developed a near high-school reading level by the time I started school. The only problem in school was that they were forcing me to read things that didn't interest me, so I didn't want to give the text the dignity of being spoken, which led a lot of teachers to believe I was stupid.
When I was 10 years old I had a pretty warped reading comprehension, which confused a lot of teachers and led them to believe that I was cheating on a lot of things. They found it hard to believe that someone who couldn't answer questions about an elementary-level book that the whole class read 5 minutes ago, also read 4 Harry Potter books in one weekend.
I don't remember ever making any attempts to write legibly in school, since most essays were allowed to be typed, but mysteriously as an adult, I've found that I can write more legibly than most, in situations where it is required that I write something. But in my days of typing essays from 4th-6th grade, I still received low marks for "assuming" information, rather than copying it from books and putting it into my own words (which is entirely stupid to me). The only time I received a "4" on an essay, was when the information I assumed in my essay just so happened to be presented in other words from other sources, but I think they were just being prejudice because the essay was about the comparison of schools with uniforms and schools without, where I got to vent about my lack of preference for clothes, and I claimed that schools with uniforms have much less fights and bullying, which turned out to be true.