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 had friend whose baby was taught sign and English, parallel. This kid never spoke a word, didn’t really make much noise, but from like 2 and up could sign as perfectly as you’d expect a kid that age to and that was how he communicated. Then one day between 4-5, he just started speaking, perfectly (for a five year old), out of nowhere; so naturally, like he hadn’t been this silent the whole time.
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u/mistiry 16d 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.