r/MadeMeSmile • u/bendubberley_ • 18d ago

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

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u/Kneef 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/TributeBands_areSHIT 17d 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/Youre10PlyBud 17d ago

I was non verbal until 5. My sister said everything for me. Spent 10 years in speech therapy and I still don't properly say my last name if I'm not focused on pronunciation.

Finished my masters with a 4.0. Still can't even say my name properly without people mistaking the L for a W sound.