r/MadeMeSmile • u/bendubberley_ • 16d ago

Wholesome Moments Autistic non-verbal boy speaks directly to his mother for the first time.

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u/Kneef 16d ago

Development is a weird thing, kids get to things at wildly different paces sometimes, and still mostly turn out perfectly capable adults. Lotta variation in humans.

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u/UserCannotBeVerified 16d ago

Iirc Einstein didn't speak until he was 4 or 5

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u/TributeBands_areSHIT 16d ago

Those are exceptions. Unfortunately most children who are non verbal by 4 require extensive services to catch up.

Rarely are these children just “really shy but fully capable of speech”. It takes WORK to get them to communicate 99% of the time.

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u/UserCannotBeVerified 16d ago

As someone with ASD I get that, I was just stating how development affects us all in different ways. I'd also hazard a guess at saying those who were nonverbal until they were a few years old weren't "just shy", there's a lot more going on than that, hence, development affects us all in different ways