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 don’t know how true that actually is cause I seem to hear all of the time about kids who had delayed speech until 4/5 and turned out fine, myself included.
I have a niece who didn’t speak until she was 4, she is now at uni. And a friends little boy was non verbal until he was 3 but is fine now and has just started school.
In all honesty all of them didn’t but that’s because their parents were either neglectful or didn’t have the resources, and my parents were just assholes lmao I got absolutely nothing.
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u/mistiry 18d 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.