My daughter was nonverbal until she was 4. She would occasionally make sounds similar to words. One day I was home from work on lunch break, I worked 5 minutes away and would come home for lunch to save money.
I was leaving to head back to work, kissed my wife and then my daughter who was sitting in a high chair also having lunch. I told her "bye, I love you!".
She replied with a crystal clear perfect "I love you" back.
The reaction from my wife and I was similar to this mom. Hearing her speak at all, let alone telling me she loves me, is one of my strongest memories now. I remember it often and this video brought back all the emotions.
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.
I was incredibly ahead and while I'm definitely like, a "smart person," it's not ADHD or anything. It's just a bell curve. I was early, some people are late, but 30 years later, a lot of us got to the same place.
Same. As a kid everyone always told me how smart I was, and that kinda turned into the identity I made for myself. Turns out I'm a pretty average adult, and that wasn't always easy to cope with lol
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u/mistiry 19d ago
My daughter was nonverbal until she was 4. She would occasionally make sounds similar to words. One day I was home from work on lunch break, I worked 5 minutes away and would come home for lunch to save money.
I was leaving to head back to work, kissed my wife and then my daughter who was sitting in a high chair also having lunch. I told her "bye, I love you!".
She replied with a crystal clear perfect "I love you" back.
The reaction from my wife and I was similar to this mom. Hearing her speak at all, let alone telling me she loves me, is one of my strongest memories now. I remember it often and this video brought back all the emotions.