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

[u/bendubberley_]

[u/Kneef → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/atlanstone → u/Kneef]

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.

[u/Jfish4391 → u/atlanstone]

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