Somebody sat next to you sounding out “c-a-t” a hundred times so you could read this sentence in one second.

Reading feels like a sense rather than a skill, because you cannot remember acquiring it. Somebody sat with you through hundreds of repetitions of something unbelievably boring, over months, with no guarantee it was working, and the result is that words now arrive in your head instantly and without effort. The labor is invisible precisely because it worked.

Find out who did it in your case and mention it. Most people have never once been thanked for teaching a child to read, and it is among the larger things anybody ever did for you.