r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 30 '25

Wholesome Moments Daycare CCTV captures a baby's first steps, and her mother is overwhelmed by the workers' excitement.

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u/Jim_Nebna Jan 30 '25

First steps? That kid went on a hike.

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u/ApartmentProud9628 Jan 30 '25

My sister did this, she refused to crawl or any form of movement, she saw doctors etc. and then one day she stood up and walked…like she didn’t want anyone to see her practice 🤣 she did the same with talking, refused too - everyone was worried - then she just said a full sentence like a boss.

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u/SillyOldJack Jan 30 '25

Apparently I was a sneaky walker in my youth. My mom always told me I wouldn't walk and didn't care to crawl much, until one day I just got up and "ran" around the kitchen island and back.

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u/FuckmehalftoDeath Jan 30 '25

My little brother did this and immediately ran head first into the edge of a door. Just went from wobbling standing to full tilt baby-running. He has his own permanent Harry Potter scar from that first dash & crash.

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u/greenbish420 Jan 30 '25

My little brother also has a HP scar from baby-running into the coffee table

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u/VanSquirrel26 Jan 31 '25

I have a manufactured dimple from crashing into the edge of a chair

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u/aalexAtlanta Jan 31 '25

Had to check the username to see if you were my brother lol

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u/Imhereforboops Jan 31 '25

I have one from a wire rope connecting a pickup to an old ass tree being pulled out of the ground tightening and snapping my forehead because my dad didn’t close the front door so i took a nice little walk out front then woke up on the dirt

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u/Smithy3371 Jan 31 '25

Mines from running into a radiator whilst being chased around the flat we lived in by my dad apparently 😂

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u/Violexsound Jan 31 '25

Damn you for making me laugh my ass off in the middle of a college class

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u/nohandsfootball Feb 02 '25

My parents took me to the doctor to get my eyes checked because I kept running into things and they thought I had an issue with my vision. Turns out I was a baby ram.

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u/Lejonhufvud Jan 30 '25

Sometimes you have to run before walk or smth like that

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u/a_rude_jellybean Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

That is true.

Source, i have IBS.

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u/Imhereforboops Jan 31 '25

Omfg!! I get it, but sometimes all you can do is clench and pray for it to pass until you have the strength to run again

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u/ARightDastard Jan 30 '25

Easy there, Cap'n Mal.

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u/same_guy Jan 30 '25

Like learning grammar b4 u type bad or smth I dunno

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u/baronlanky Jan 30 '25

I was the same, I’d crawl everywhere and my mom rushed out of the kitchen playfully (my dad was recording), so I went in full speed crawling and when mom came out I came around the corner running after her and she didn’t notice til she turned around

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u/eekamuse Jan 30 '25

LPT if you're sitting there like me, wondering if you did this, ask your parents. Ask them a lot of stuff you don't know about your childhood and their family and their childhood. If you do already know ask them. I don't know and I'm curious about so many things and I can't ask. You can find a way to do it. Don't wait.

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u/bimbogio Jan 31 '25

i love asking my parents about things i did as a baby/toddler now that i have my own. its crazy how similar we are

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u/Siicktiits Jan 30 '25

I never crawled either. My parents had gotten me one of those walker seats when i was like 2 months old and I would just run through the house like i was in a bumper car. I was full on running without it by 6 months old. I also was chucked into the deep end of a swimming pool by some nuns while my parents weren't allowed to watch around the same time. Literally their technique was to just dump the baby in the deep end and if they figure it out they know how to swim now. I was a 6 month old baby that could run and swim. The 90s were different.

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u/BeaverStank Jan 30 '25

A guy i went to school with and his old lady just got arrested recently because they did this and their toddler drowned. Obviously some extingent circumstances going on but I hope everyone these days knows that's an incredibly irresponsible thing to do with your kids.

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u/Chicken-Mcwinnish Jan 30 '25

There is a narrow window where babies at a certain age (can’t remember how old) can reflexively swim when put in water. If they experience this and keep it up throughout childhood they can become extremely good swimmers. This might have been the intention but done incredibly poorly

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 Jan 30 '25

And if they don’t figure it out, they were a witch anyways

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u/BeBraveShortStuff Jan 30 '25

Same, except it was the 80’s. Definitely a different time. Also it wasn’t nuns who threw me in, it was my dad, and my mom almost killed him. (Figuratively of course). Luckily she was in the pool already so she grabbed me, but hoo-boy am I glad I have no memory of that fight. I don’t know if I started walking early because of a walker or because of the baby jumper thingy they attached to the door frame and put me in. Apparently I would just go to town in that thing and my little legs were really strong. I was also really impatient so I just… did stuff. Like I’d get upset people got places faster than me so I just started walking. I didn’t like that everyone could ride a bike except me so I just had my dad take the training wheels off, got on my bike one day and did it.

Wish I still picked things up that quickly.

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u/zveroshka Jan 30 '25

Kids make no fucking sense sometimes. It's both frustrating and beautiful because they all walk, pun intended, their own path.

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u/CryptographerNo3749 Jan 30 '25

My mom said I climbed before I did anything else. I have a permanent burn scar on my stomach from when I was a baby because she said I had to have climbed up to the top of our kitchen table where she had her curling iron warming up, and I must have laid on it. She was getting ready for work and had left me alone for a minute or two.

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u/dhal392 Jan 30 '25

My mom told me I would roll, just full on sonic the hedgehog roll into people. My family feared for the safety of their kneecaps and shins until I learned to walk.

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u/ibejeph Jan 30 '25

My son was the same.  He crawled once for about 4 feet and that was it.  Shortly thereafter, he started standing and eventually walked.   Just kinda skipped crawling.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

Bum shuffle!

For those not recently possessing a tiny human - I am making a Bluey reference.

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u/CollectionPrize8236 Jan 30 '25

Pretty sure it's been called that before bluey.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Jan 30 '25

Obviously but the episode is about how kids all develop differently when learning to walk which is why I'm specifically pointing out the fact this is a Bluey reference and that I'm not just randomly shouting "bum shuffle"

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u/Gibodean Jan 30 '25

My daughter hardly crawled, and was a bum shuffler. We called it that before we'd seen Bluey, but we're Aussies, so it's just the name for it.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Jan 30 '25

Ya I'm not saying bluey invented the name bum shuffle but that the episode is a great example of how kids develop differently and "bum shuffle" is something anyone that has seen the episode will immediately remember

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u/CollectionPrize8236 Jan 30 '25

I'm UK it's what we called it when the babies bum shuffle too.

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u/JollyCorner8545 Jan 30 '25

Baby Race is the episode to put on whenever I feel like having a cry. If "you're doing great" doesn't get me "maybe you just saw something you wanted" absolutely will.

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u/Threedickeddinosaur Jan 30 '25

As a dude hurtling toward 40 with two young kids, these never fail to make it really dusty in my house.

“Camping” “Daddy Drop Off” “Sleepytime” “Granddad” “The Sign”

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u/Numerous_Witness_345 Jan 30 '25

'Onesies' for our house.

 Have two really sweet aunts that didn't get any little ones of their own.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 30 '25

My husband rolled to where he wanted to go, then at 7 months he stood up and ran and never stopped after that.

Fortunately his sister was only 10.5 months younger than him, so he learned to crawl when she did 🤷

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u/ibejeph Jan 30 '25

My mom loves to tell me I was a roller.  I rolled under their ancient, huge TV, got my head stuck and was understandably very upset.  However, why this tale was worth a thousand tellings, I'll never know. 

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u/GeekyKirby Jan 30 '25

My younger sister never learned how to crawl properly. She'd only use one leg when crawling and kinda let the other one drag behind her. She learned how to walk fine, so there was nothing wrong with her leg lol

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u/BeMyFriendGodfather Jan 30 '25

Did they have siblings? I notice with siblings they’re up so much faster because they want to join in.

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u/ibejeph Jan 30 '25

Well, he's an only child and the first grandchild, so he was the trailblazer. Now he has a couple of cousins and even two nephews.

I've seen what you are talking about, however.  My niece's development was much faster then her older sister.

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u/MovingTarget- Jan 30 '25

No need to mess with all that amateur stuff like crawling

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u/cerealandcorgies Jan 30 '25

My sibling did this. Nothing, nothing, nothing, and suddenly everything.

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u/whoelsebutquagmire75 Jan 30 '25

Same with my daughter! She’s been non-verbal autistic her whole life and I heard all the stories of some kids not talking till 4 and always had hope…I had resigned myself to my mute little princess and all of a sudden at 6+ she started verbalizing. Badly at first and now it’s been a couple of months and the kid doesn’t shut up and walks around the house singing jingle bells and snowflake songs ALL DAY. She’s absolutely making up for lost time and I couldn’t be prouder 🥰🙏

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u/animaljamkid Jan 30 '25

Aww this warms my heart. ❤️

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u/Sea_Bus4842 Jan 30 '25

This is so adorable! I hope she has many beautiful memories and moments to talk about all her life. I’m glad she has you, you seem to be an amazing parent!

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u/whoelsebutquagmire75 Jan 30 '25

Awww thank you so much! That really means a lot! I love her with everything I have and have given her everything I can. All she ever hears is that she is a beautiful smart princess and will thrive in her own way with us behind her ❤️❤️❤️ Scary to not know if she’ll ever be independent and have her own life but as long as I’m alive I’ll be here to protect her and encourage her and take care of her and help her be happy ❤️🙏 thank you for the kind words, it’s nice to hear in the midst of the journey ❤️💪

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u/InevitablePain21 Jan 30 '25

My little brother too, he was actually running before we ever saw him walk. He refused to do anything, my parents took him to doctors thinking he was developmentally behind, and then one day instead of crawling he’s running down the hallway like it’s nothing

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u/Sandwidge_Broom Jan 30 '25

My grandma always said my mom did this. She’s the youngest of 5, and the only girl, with her youngest brother being 7 years older than she is. She constantly had the boys just picking her up to go places, so walking on her own just didn’t seem like a great option. Then, the day after my grandma made an appointment with a specialist to figure out if something deeper was going on with her refusal to walk, she spotted a toy across the room and just got up and went to get it. Boys were all at school, so her usual chauffeurs weren’t available, and she finally just had to be an independent baby who didn’t need no brothers.

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u/gaudrhin Jan 30 '25

My second goddaughter (my best friends' kid) only spoke with her mouth closed for a while. We got pretty good at interpreting her muffled "talking."

Then we went to Disney World. Late summer and we're sweating, waiting at a bus stop to get to our dinner reservation, we all suddenly hear a little voice we don't know say, very clearly, "Hot."

She was sitting on her dad's shoulders. Said it again. We were all just blown away by how clearly she said it.

Over the course of that week, we randomly heard "A castle! A mermaid! Pissy dust!" (Pixie dust) and a lot more.

She's 12 now and doesn't shut up. Love that kid.

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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 Jan 30 '25

Same way with walking. Parents can't wait until the first steps.... then two years of chasing the little buggers around the house trying to contain the chaos!

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u/uttermybiscuit Jan 30 '25

Disneyworld really is magical. That's awesome.

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u/openletter8 Jan 30 '25

My youngest daughter didn't talk whatsoever for ages. When she finally did, it was to yell a full sentence at her older sister. Perfectly clearly stated and with the correct grammar.

Some kids are just not bothered with impressing anyone and will do things when they want.

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u/not_elises Jan 30 '25

I did this too, I didn't start talking until I was turning 4 (somehow missed my autism diagnosis but y'know).

I started talking because my parents were playing Uno with my brother and I wanted to be involved. So I just started saying all the numbers, they stopped the game to see if I would say other things and I started talking in full sentences.

I think I used to talk to my older brother in secret since we shared a room but just refused to say a word to my parents for years.

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u/momsasylum Jan 30 '25

I remember my first son always telling us what his brother wanted, all the time. “He wants this” for years till we finally took him to be tested. The tester said he spoke perfectly fine, though we hadn’t heard him say a word yet. She added that he hadn’t said anything because his brother did all his talking to that point so he didn’t really need to say anything, and that he’d speak to us when he chose to.

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u/swinddler Jan 30 '25

Imagine having that kind of bond with a sibling. They must be close?

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u/momsasylum Jan 30 '25

That would be amazing, along with their sister they’re as close as they can be living in separate states.

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u/HillTopTerrace Jan 30 '25

I am praying this is the case with my son. He’s 2 in April and though he “talks” by babble and grunting to communicate with me, no solid words yet.

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u/Phrewfuf Jan 30 '25

My daughter did the same thing. She’s 15 months old now and while she did crawl, it took her a while to start walking properly. What she did instead was walk about on her knees.

Then, one day she decided to stand up on her feet and just dash across the kitchen as if she‘s been walking for ages.

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u/Office_glen Jan 30 '25

I'm going to share this here

My daughter was having some health issues, we still aren't sure what it is related to but she was having some delays.

Anyways for MONTHS we tried getting her to crawl on all fours (looks like part of her issues is low muscle tone) she couldn't even do it, and then one day while nothing of note was happening and my wife wasn't home, from across the room I see her push up on all fours and start crawling to me like she had been doing it forever, it was so smooth. I rushed to get my phone so my wife could see it too. It was unreal

Same thing with walking. She wasn't even barely able to stand on her own unassisted at 18 months. She had to hold something and did very very little cruising. One day she stands on her own for a minute with no assistance, we were absolutely over the moon, her previous records was like 20 seconds, it seemed to come from nowhere. A few days after that out of the corner of my eye I see her standing at a toy, turn and take a pivot step to the couch..... I doubted my own eyes.... The next day or two days later walking came, and in a matter of days she was walking around.

There were days I thought my daughter would never walk, I can't describe what her first crawl and steps meant to me

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u/chicken-nanban Jan 30 '25

I don’t have kids and live vicariously through friends and posts like this. I just want to say I have the biggest dumb smile on my face reading this! I’m so glad, and I hope she’s doing amazingly still, and you are awesome too. Just love all around!

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u/beeurd Jan 30 '25

My mum said that I never crawled either, just got up and started walking instead. Guess I didn't get the memo about the proper timeline. 😅

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u/cubelion Jan 30 '25

Are you able to ride a bike? My brother and I never crawled, and learning to pedal was super hard. Our yoga teacher (hippie parents!) said it was because we never learned to move our hip joints.

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u/ImAMeanBear Jan 30 '25

My son was the same, he rolled everywhere he had to go until he started walking. Every time I took him to the Dr they would tell me he was fine and babies do things in their own time. He started walking at 8 months, totally bypassing the crawling phase

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u/Charming-Coast3664 Jan 30 '25

My 5 month old currently rolls all over the place 😂 she will roll her way to get what she wants 😂 she has been trying to sit up since like 2 months old she can do baby crunches now 🤣 she’s the baby and I feel she’s going to do things fast to keep up lol she has. 14 yr old sister and 4 yr old brother to keep up with 🤣

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u/NewRedditRN Jan 30 '25

My kid refused to stand/crawl or do anything but bum scoot. Did MONTHS of physio with the only diagnosis of “stubborn”.  Fast forward to her being 22-months old, it’s my birthday, I’m sitting on the couch in out living room and she comes RUNNING in and does a lap around the coffee table and leaves.  From that point on she was like “walking? Yeah that’s nothing.”

Many years later and her stubbornness has not changed. She refuses to show you her skills until she has practiced enough in secret that she is happy with the results. 

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u/whysew Jan 30 '25

I met this kid once, and she is the most talkative kid I’ve ever encountered. She probably was like 7. She’d talk in long sentences and usually each one with just one breath. After each super long sentence, she’d have to take a deep breath to talk again. That’s how much she talks. Her parents said they were concerned she couldn’t talk for years and went to many doctors and speech therapists. Suddenly, one day, she started speaking in paragraphs and they still can’t figure out how to shut her up. She’s making up for lost time now.

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u/windyorbits Jan 30 '25

That’s exactly how my son was. He could say the usual “mama” and “dada” at the appropriate milestone but after that he would just grunt and point at things. So when he was about 3 we started all the testing and eventually got into speech therapy programs (it took months and months for all this to happen).

Then one day, a week before his first official speech therapy appointment, he woke up and started talking.

The office called a few days later to remind me of the appointment so I told them that he started talking and wasn’t sure if we needed to come in. They got the therapist on the phone and I put it on speaker so she could listen to my son talk. And she was like “yeah no need to come in!”.

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u/Phormitago Jan 30 '25

then she just said a full sentence like a boss.

pff she couldn't even rap?

cmon, baby!

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u/Lebowquade Jan 30 '25

I assume your sister is not neurotypical?

That is such an ADHD/autistic thing. Not every time, but like... a lot of the time.

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u/Vairman Jan 30 '25

veryone was worried - then she just said a full sentence like a boss.

this gives me hope. My grandson is 1-1/2 and doesn't speak - yet. I hope this happens, he's such a cute little boy. I want to hear what he has to say.

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u/markedforpie Jan 30 '25

Be careful what you wish for! My youngest didn’t speak at all until age 3. We took him to specialist, doctors, therapists, everything. He was diagnosed with autism and was attending speech therapy. On his third birthday he started talking. Just like a timer went off and he was allowed to talk now. HE HASN’T STOPPED TALKING FOR 11 YEARS! I can’t get that child to stop gabbing EVER! It’s like he plans on using every waking minute making up for the first three years! I love him to death but if I have to hear another 15 minute tirade about hollow knight I’m gonna lose it!

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u/Vairman Jan 30 '25

my son was like that - but he started talking at like 10 months or so. So many times I had to ask him to not talk for a couple minutes while driving so daddy could concentrate. It was annoying at times but when he was getting ready to move out on his own I soaked as much of it in as I could - because I knew I would miss it. And I do.

If my grandson becomes a nonstop chatterbox I'll be the happiest grandpa ever.

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u/ApartmentProud9628 Jan 30 '25

If it helps my sister was about 2, however she does have ASD - not sure if that’s a contributing factor as she wasn’t disguised until much older.

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u/SandiegoJack Jan 30 '25

Boys take longer to talk typically.

Ours is almost 2 and barely said a word. Meanwhile his cousin was going ham at 2.

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u/GeekyKirby Jan 30 '25

I didn't speak until I was 3-4ish. And even then, it was often unintelligible. My mom use to joke that English wasn't meant to be my first language. My family was too poor for specialists, so my mom spent every night before bed making me practice the sounds I couldn't say correctly. I speak perfectly fine now.

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u/fore12345 Jan 30 '25

My son was sort of similar. When he took his first steps, he fell on his butt HARD. He didnt like that and refused any attempt to walk for the next 3 weeks. Then one night, he slid off the couch and just walked down the hallway to his room.

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u/Delicious_Delilah Jan 30 '25

That's what I apparently did as well.

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u/Prudent-Ad1002 Jan 30 '25

My son did the same thing for both.

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u/Organic-Remove9512 Jan 30 '25

Absolute power move. She wasn’t gonna let anyone witness her struggle—just straight to expert mode. 😂 Probably came out the womb with a five-year plan too!

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u/ApartmentProud9628 Jan 30 '25

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me with her! She’s still a right madam in all situations ha ha! And she is always the one with the plan.

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u/Strawbebishortcake Jan 30 '25

My cousin was the same. didnt move and then just stood up and walked. Similarly he didn't talk until relatively late and then just started with a full sentence.

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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Jan 30 '25

Ohmygods my son did this with talking. Freakin perfectionists!

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u/avalonrose14 Jan 30 '25

I did that with talking. I babbled a bit but at some point little me must’ve gotten pissed the fuck off by no one understanding what I wanted so I simply stopped talking. Then suddenly one day I was speaking full sentences. I don’t remember it obviously but my parents always mentioned being really confused because I was reading and seemed to be on track in all other ways but I simply refused to speak for awhile.

We later found out I’m autistic so I always just chalked it up to that

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u/WildMartin429 Jan 30 '25

I wound up reversing walking and talking at the correct ages. My mom was trying to give me to my grandmother for babysitting so my parents could go and do something and apparently I reached out for my mother and said "my mama" as my first words. Unfortunately once you're done with high school and College being smart doesn't really get you very far unless you're the kind of smart that can create things that you can sell.

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Jan 30 '25

I did the same with the talking. Straight up nothing to complete sentences, then I was reading voraciously by kindergarten. I’m fairly certain that I’m mildly to mediumly neurodivergent in one way or another. Was there anything like that with her?

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u/joylandlocked Jan 30 '25

Yes! I had one of each genre. The perfectionist who made sure he had every move planned out before debuting the new skill, later than his peers but expertly executed. And then the madcap who just started throwing her legs in the direction she hoped to go at nine months old like "I'll figure it out."

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u/Amannderrr Jan 30 '25

My kid did the talking thing too. She took it ALLLL in & one day just started speaking almost full sentences 🥰

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u/jaytix1 Jan 30 '25

My mom said I didn't start talking until I was like four. She was worried there was something going on, but according to the doctors, I just didn't have anything I wanted to say lol.

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u/ArmadilloPenguin Jan 30 '25

Maybe she just saw something she wanted.

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u/IAmTheGodkiller Jan 30 '25

My parents have told the story of my first words many times

Idk how much, but I was a noticeable amount past the point when babies normally say their first words, and my parents were starting to worry there might be something "wrong" with me, I hadn't even tried saying any basic words to them.

One day they were trying to feed me lima beans, and I kept moving my head back and forth away from it, and eventually I looked right into their eyes and said "I don't want any."

And they didn't make me eat them lol

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u/Catsoverall Jan 30 '25

Same. Mum would hear me practice at night when I thought no one was listening. One of my first 5 public words was Chrysanthemum due to my gran doing garden rounds with me...

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u/chicken-nanban Jan 30 '25

This was my friends second daughter! Didn’t crawl, but just one day got up and sauntered around like she was her older sister.

Didn’t speak other than baby babble or noises like grunts or whines. Then one day, I was there for this one, she points at an octopus in a picture book and asks me “what animal is it?”

Her dad just stared dumbly at her and was like “wut just happened?”

I told her it was an octopus, and she said “octopus” three times like she was memorizing it and then said “tako is octopus.” They’re bilingual, mom is Japanese and dad American, so she knew the word for it in Japanese but not English.

But just out of the blue, asking questions and making connections and shit. Kids are wild sometimes, it’s like you hear everything clicking into place at high speed. She’s also great with puzzles and how things work. She can take something apart and put it back again - I swear she’ll be an engineer.

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u/412beekeeper Jan 30 '25

That is sooooo cute! I hope you sister is a boss in life now

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u/italyqt Jan 30 '25

That’s what my daughter did. She never even cruised. She spent about week staring at feet everytime we went anywhere. Then just stood up in the middle of the floor and started walking.

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u/herfjoter Jan 30 '25

My brother went from crawling to running. I remember thinking he also didn't want us to see him practice 😂

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u/Beyondthehody Jan 30 '25

My son would practice standing, but seemed to get shy when you'd put your attention on him - he seemed to want to crawl to a private area and practice alone.

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u/Side_of_ham Jan 30 '25

My kid decided to take their first steps about 15 minutes after the entire extended family packed up and left our house at the end of a visit. 

I swear toddlers know what they are doing

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

This was my child (lol).

Didn't crawl at all--just always stood while holding something and then decided to walk. Also didn't talk much--no babbling like they say babies will do--well past her first year of life and then, nearing two, her first utterance was two words strung together, and then it was whole phrases from there.

No idea why; guess some babies just like to skip the training haha...

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u/NLight7 Jan 30 '25

Same for me, while growing up I was bilingual. Or my parents spoke to me in one language at least and daycare spoke to me in what is now my native language. Apparently I didn't say a word in daycare for very long. I understood what they said apparently cause I acted on it, but I never said a word.

The story goes that one day when I was like 3 or 4 I just walked up to one of the adults and said "I would like to go take walk outside, cause the weather is nice." with no accent or dialect. I was apparently fluent and just never said a word until I was sure I could say the full sentence or smth.

Apparently we went for a walk.

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u/dodrugzwitthugz Jan 30 '25

Daughter did this with her speech, could only say a few words and then over a weekend she went to full sentences. It's really neat how kids seem to have things "click".

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u/AP_in_Indy Jan 30 '25

I did the same thing with reading. I hated reading as a kid. I refused to learn it. This REALLY frustrated the shit out of my parents.

Then... basically all at once... I picked up the patterns how phonetics composed words.

I went from not being able to read at all to reading every single sign and notice posted in the city practically overnight haha.

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u/maggie_the_cat_ Jan 30 '25

I love this, that is hilarious ❤️

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u/WhenIWish Jan 30 '25

This is basically my son also. Absolutely refused to crawl until he finally got smart and offered him a cookie, but he was still technically delayed and then we just assumed walking would be delayed. Saw him practice pulling himself up on some stuff but never really saw anything else - and this is with him having PT 3x per week. And then boom, a month after he crawled, he walked, and never crawled again lol.

Same thing with talking - got into speech therapy ~18 months and we worked endlessly with him on speaking and sign language (my husband is fluent in asl) just to give him some path of communication. He didn’t even hit 50 words spoken or asl by his second birthday. And then one day just boom - full sentences.

I’m like - were you practicing jn your sleep??? lol

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u/SparkitusRex Jan 30 '25

My youngest was like this. Refused to walk, would immediately sit and scoot or crawl. I was working with her for like an hour straight and she just wouldn't. Finally I gave up and sat on the couch. No lie 5 minutes later she stands up and walks across the living room like she'd been walking for months.

I was able to pull the home camera footage and you see me in the corner throw my hands in the air like "are you even kidding me" lol

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u/SwallowMyGurt Jan 30 '25

My youngest brother did the same thing but with riding a bike. He was 4 and would watch the kids in our neighborhood ride. One day me and my mom are in our kitchen and just see him in the street riding a bike around without training wheels. (we lived on a cul-de-sac for anyone who was concerned)

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u/ZaedaXobu Jan 30 '25

According to my family, I was also like this. Everyone remembers when I took my first steps because it was New Year's Day. The story is my grandmother stood me up and said "Alright, kiddo, it's a new year, time for you to walk." Then moved her hands and I wobbled a moment, then walked toward the family dog. The family joke is that I was just waiting for permission. 🤣

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u/Budget_Ad5871 Jan 30 '25

My daughter was the same way, she did the same thing with talking, we were with a group of kids, one of the first times when Covid calmed down, a kid said “can she talk?” I went to respond “a little” (momma, dada, please” and she piped up “I can talk!” With her hands on her hips haha

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u/JustALizzyLife Jan 30 '25

My son did this. Didn't crawl at all. He'd scoot, usually backwards, but didn't want to crawl. Then at 9 months he just started walking. He's been super independent ever since.

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u/ApartmentProud9628 Jan 30 '25

Actually the independent thing is a good point! My sister is the most independent person I know, like to a massive self sacrificing degree.

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u/aminervia Jan 30 '25

I did this with talking, my first word was the start of a sentence

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u/mtcwby Jan 30 '25

I'm told I did the same and my oldest did as well. Turns out my personality was to watch very carefully and figure it out before trying. Spent years learning how to just go for it sometimes. The perfectionist streak was strong and often got in my way.

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u/AGirlHasNoName9 Jan 30 '25

Lol my daughter was exactly the same. She just wouldn't start to walk until one day she stood up and walked across the room. Like, what?!

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u/zepplin2225 Jan 30 '25

My (now) thirteen year old did the same.

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u/youassassin Jan 30 '25

Yep that was our kid. Had to learn how to crawl after she was already walking. Also full sentences as well. She was an observant little tike.

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u/Altruistic_Flower965 Jan 30 '25

My grandson could walk all around our neighborhood before his parents realized he could walk. He wasn’t willing to ruin a good thing at home by letting them know he could walk.

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u/TheMephiticRedX Jan 30 '25

This was my third born in a nutshell. he loved standing on things he would never crawl he just wanted you to bring him over to stuff so he could stand up on it and bounce his legs up and down and one day in front of me and his mother his mom called to him to see if he would walk and he walked about 10 ft no problem right over to her and the rest was history he was a walking boy from that day on

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u/ender1adam Jan 30 '25

Mom says that I was like that too. Didn’t blabber and went full sentence speech.

I guess that’s a character trait. Even as an adult I tend not to do things that I’m not confident in successfully doing. Like I’ll spend a long time planning on something before actually trying to do it.

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u/Meltini Jan 30 '25

That’s how my youngest is!!! Rolling over, sitting up, crawling, walking, talking… VERY delayed then all of a sudden BAM. One day she decided to start doing it all like she’s been doing it for years.

Now she’s a mean ass 2 year old frat boy, stomping around barking orders like she owns the place. Every time she gets angry, she rips her shirt off and headbutts shit.

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u/Wompguinea Jan 30 '25

My son did this. We were playing on the floor on his first birthday and my sister was there with her kid. She was talking about how advanced her almost 2 year old was, and generally acting like an older sibling about it, when she mentioned the only thing her daughter did a bit slower was walk at 18 months.

My son hadn't shown any interest in walking yet (or since tbh, he's 12 and hardly moves) but after she said he'd probably be the same, and walk at 18 months, he looked her dead in the eye, got up and left the room.

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u/IdaFuktem Jan 30 '25

I was told my first steps happened at a bank. Mom put me down to hold onto her while filling out slips and I just started wandering off, she yelled out "it's his first steps!" and I made it over to someone's desk that was clapping at me. 

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u/Mommynurseof5 Jan 30 '25

My middle son did that too.

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u/gophins13 Jan 30 '25

This was my son. We took him to speech therapists and an occupational therapist and then one day he just started talking.

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u/SuperEvening420 Jan 30 '25

My mother said I never crawled , one day I just got up and started walking. I was 7 and a half months, it's still talked about with my extended family. They want their kids to be at my family record so bad it's pretty funny. I see how babies are and I just think there's no way I was walking before 8 months.

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u/Angelm555 Jan 30 '25

I was also one that hated crawling, I don't think I actually learned to crawl until middle school. Mom tells me that if it involved my stomach facing the floor I wanted no part of it. Went straight from sitting up to walking. I think the first time I used our couch to stand, stood there for a bit, long enough for my parents to think I was going to just sit down again, then took off across the room for one of my favorite toys, walking only the first few steps. Lol they had been very shocked.

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u/flyingturkey_89 Jan 30 '25

My kid flat out refused to say his name to us when he was a toddler. We were super worried, and try to practice everyday. A year past, and we we heard him introduce himself to another kid with "Hi, I am ". We were super happy and posted it in our family group chat. My sister called us and told us, uhhh yeah he's able to say his name, he was saying it to me for a year now while I babysat him".

I later ask the daycare teacher if he was able to say his name, and apparently he goes to up all the other kids and introduce himself.

My wife and I felt a strange feeling of relief, joy and defeat.

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u/soge-king Jan 30 '25

"Learn to crawl before you can walk? Pfft get outta here with your live love laugh shit, Imma walk straight up." - probably the baby.

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u/RadialHowl Jan 30 '25

My foster brother was highly autistic, didn't say a word, didn' even make sounds, until he was four. Then one day he looked up my bio brother, who habitually went around the table and greeted everyone by name in the morning, and just busted out "MORNING A DAMES" my brother's name is James.

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u/Dwovar Jan 30 '25

Took our kid to a speech therapist because she didn't "know 100 words". Therapist says she looks fine, maybe it's an auditory thing. I get back to the car. 

"Daddy, why'd we do that?"

Listen here you little shit

Co-pays are non-refundable.

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u/BigElephant2358 Jan 30 '25

Yep my older sister was like this also!!! She’s still extremely poised and put together. Love her

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u/This_Mongoose445 Jan 30 '25

My youngest was like that with every stage, walking, eating, potty training. It was wild. No potty training, she just did it.

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u/CrispInMyChicken Jan 30 '25

That was me, and reading i knew people would read to me less if I could read on my own. So I held off until kindergarten started, and the free story time well started to get low.

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u/zooj7809 Jan 30 '25

My son's first words after mama and baba, was where are you mama? I was in shock. Guy went through terrible twos cuz he couldn't ask or say anything. Then he just full on started talking after that first sentence.

3rd son started speaking our mother tongue at 14 months, english at 16 months. Full on sentences, he never went through the terrible twos cuz he could fully communicate.

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u/beautifulchaos531 Jan 30 '25

I follow a content creator like this he would ask is this normal? Because his daughter refused to crawl and now she’s a walker!

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u/Beautyafterdark Jan 31 '25

Same with me! Mom took me the doctor and he told her I was just being lazy 😄 Then one day when I was 16 months old I was wearing a dress that was too hard to crawl in so I just stood up and walked like I’d been doing it for weeks!

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u/Mediocre-Housing-131 Jan 31 '25

I apparently did this and I ended up later being diagnosed with high functioning autism. Not saying that’s the case here, but thought I’d say something

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u/Blueydgrl56 Jan 31 '25

My son was like this. He never walked he just stood up and ran. He grew up bilingual, and so he said about 2 words, we figured it was from learning two languages at the same time, and then at 18 months started speaking full sentences.

It was just his personality

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u/AffectionateTry6807 Jan 31 '25

It was like that with my son. One day he just up and started walking around. I didn't notice until I did. 😂

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u/regular_gnoll_NEIN Jan 31 '25

Haha that sounds like me, my parents always talked about how I refused to speak until I was like 2 unless I could say the word properly.

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u/dandroid126 Jan 30 '25

Apparently my mom had no idea that I could read until my preschool teacher told my mom she was sending me home with books that I was able to read.

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u/ASL4theblind Jan 30 '25

My childhood next door neighbor who is a year older was walking and baby ASL stood up and walked over to watch what was happening. Its one of my parents favorite stories to tell.

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u/Sleepy_Pianist Jan 30 '25

My sister and I were like that with our speech! Just spoke in our “twin language” until we were 3 then started speaking in full sentences outta nowhere 😂

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u/DrRatiosButtPlug Jan 30 '25

I did close to the same. I wouldn't crawl or scoot until I could completely hold myself off the ground. Then I didn't walk until I was ready to fully walk. Then instead of walking, I just ran everywhere.

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u/cubelion Jan 30 '25

My niece would do a milestone once (always on time, sometimes early), then not do it again for months. 3 months: rolled over once. Not again until a year old. Walking? Took three steps at 9 months. Did not stand up again until 18 months. I swear that kid loved fucking with us.

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u/RadiantRocketKnight Jan 30 '25

That was somewhat me as well lol. My parents said I didn't crawl much. One day I just started walking by holding onto a couch and figured it out. 

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u/Ambitious_Alps_3797 Jan 30 '25

my daughter was like this. decided she would walk and then walked, decided she could talk and then talked in sentences. potty training was the same way.

my son was the opposite-- my mans bear crawled like a fiend for 13 months before he would walk and BAAAABBLED like crazy.

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u/Ok-Bag5207 Jan 30 '25

I was the sneaky type too. My explained that I refused to even stand on my feet. Then one day when we went to a beach for holidays my dad wanted to take a pic with me then when he tried to set my foot on the ground and hold my hands, my feet hurt dou to small stone, I started to walk away quickly trying to run toward my mom

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u/Sladoosh Jan 30 '25

That is so funny and cute omggg

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u/vraalapa Jan 30 '25

One of my kids was the same with the speaking. Never said a word for a long time until one day he decided it was time and just pronounced everything perfectly.

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u/switchbladesally Jan 30 '25

Literally this is my oldest lol walked super late, never crawled. Just stood up and went! She doesn’t like to do things imperfectly and won’t until she’s ready

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u/ijustwannasaveshit Jan 30 '25

I was similar except I rolled. I would line myself up to where I wanted to go and roll to my location. Went to a neurologist because I was having walking delays. One day I decided it was time. I personally think this was all a very early sign of autism that was missed. I was later diagnosed as an adult. There were definitely other signs but I think that one was the first.

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u/Ferbtastic Jan 30 '25

The talking thing is very common with 2nd children. My son was behind on almost every verbal milestone until complete sentences. He was way ahead on complete sentences.

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u/kh9393 Jan 30 '25

My sister did this with drinking stuff. One day, she stopped drinking everything. No water, no formula, no juice, nothing. Wouldn’t touch ANYTHING from a bottle. My mom panicked thinking she was sick. Then after like two days, I was drinking juice out of a cup, she walked over, and chugged the whole thing. Never touched a bottle again, never used a sippy cup. Just moved right over lol

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u/jojocookiedough Jan 30 '25

My oldest was like this too 😂

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u/gabrielxdesign Jan 30 '25

LOL, I was going to say this!

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u/KeimeiWins Jan 30 '25

Mine was the same. Took one and a half step and fell, wouldn't try again for a month... 2 weeks before 18 months (where your child is considered missing a milestone and delayed if they aren't walking by then) boom, 10 steps across the room suddenly.

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u/Real-Swing7460 Jan 30 '25

The way you wrote this makes it sound like you're recalling your own first steps

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u/Ok_Supermarket_729 Jan 30 '25

fr that was a LOT of steps for a newbie!

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u/bigmanpigman Jan 30 '25

my toddler was like that, started walking super late but when she did she walked all the way across the room!

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u/Courier_Marie Jan 30 '25

My nephew when I last visited him was barely walking and standing up, like he would take a step and sit down and not do it agian for a while. When he saw me he stood up and walked across a room to me.

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u/Spotted_Fox Jan 30 '25

I laughed out loud at the passport office and people looked at me. I don’t care though, maybe their jealous lol

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u/LeonardLikesThisName Jan 30 '25

This was our son! He never crawled, refused to walk independently until he was well over 1, and then one day took his first-ever unsupported steps which were, stg, 17 full steps in a row.

(And then after that he continued to refuse to walk without someone holding both his hands for another month)

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u/PattyRain Jan 30 '25

My son picked up a very big, but very light bucket of small toys and carried it across the room in front of the whole family on Christmas for his first steps. I think he thought he was pushing them instead of carrying them. He wouldn’t try again for 3 more months.

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u/Amazing-Essay7028 Jan 30 '25

My son’s first steps were sprints. He went from sitting to running and totally bypassed walking lol

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u/imtooldforthishison Jan 30 '25

My youngest just got up one day and ran after his sister. We just all looked at eachother like "you saw that right?"

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u/Organic-Remove9512 Jan 30 '25

Right?! That wasn’t a first step—that was a full-on expedition! Kid’s ready to file for a passport. 😂

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u/SuckAFattyReddit1 Jan 30 '25

My little sister's first steps were like this... Kinda.

She took a bunch of steps, turned right and immediately fell and headbutted a coffee table while she was falling. We have a home VHS of my dad recording and my mom encouraging her and she just suddenly just jukes 90 degrees right into a table lol.

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u/PhonB80 Jan 30 '25

My son did this. Refused to walk until one day he busted it out and refused to crawl. Had no problem walking from room to room. Felt like he knew how to walk all along and just didn’t do it.

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u/throwaway__1992__ Jan 30 '25

"Yeah, that was more like a full-on adventure than just first steps!"

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u/Master-Extension2475 Jan 30 '25

Forest gump is that you??

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u/the-willow-witch Jan 30 '25

My daughter waited until 18 months to walk. Her first steps she took 8 steps and walked like a pro to her bookcase.

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u/D_Beats Jan 30 '25

You know that saying you need to walk before you can run?

Well my sister said fuck that because she just ran. She used the couch to help her stand up and then just ran across the room, back and forth lol.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Jan 30 '25

My daughter did that 2 wiggly steps and then she bolted 😂. It reminded me of the kid from mighty ducks who could skate lightning fast but could stop

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u/MedicalExamination65 Jan 30 '25

My first steps... I randomly stood up, walked out the front door, down some steps, and what stopped me was a hose draped across the sidewalk, haha.

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u/SouthofthePaw Jan 30 '25

Could’ve done a paper route!

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u/JHoggiOG Jan 30 '25

So good 😂😂👏❤️

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u/readrunrescue Jan 30 '25

Kids are so funny.

My daughter did this, too. She had never taken an independent step - just cruised around holding onto stuff. Her very first independent steps involved walking 6-7 steps across the kitchen, turning around, and walking back the way she came.

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u/Both_Profession6281 Jan 30 '25

My kid did this basically took forever to even try and walk and then once he started he just never crawled again.

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u/UmmmNoDefNotThat Jan 30 '25

Forest, Forest Gump.

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u/PockysLight Jan 30 '25

"Jarvis, sometimes you gotta run before you can walk"

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u/WarmWindow2 Jan 30 '25

ikr, she was schmoovin

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u/jamezverusaum Jan 30 '25

I was 8 months old and ran lol 😆

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u/Odd-Comfortable-6134 Jan 30 '25

That’s what my son did too. Started crawling at 6 months, then one day shortly after he turned 8 months, he stood himself up with a chair, and took twelve steps. By the end of the day he was walking across my hallway (standard apartment). 2 days after that, he was running. After he figured that out, he wanted to run everywhere. No more stroller (unless I had to carry things), and I had to get him leash backpacks to make sure he didn’t take off.