My technically "nonverbal" son has been saying phrases lately :)
My son was diagnosed when he was 2yo with autism mild to moderate and m2m adhd. For some time my son was nonverbal but he does say many words he just doesn't use them functionally.
He is able to say
hot
hat
cross
circle
heart
rectangle
triangle
hexagon
yellow
dada/mama
up
ball
clap
star
juice
sit
hey
no
square
turn right
turn left
I am so proud of him for saying those words but his dad and grandpa who i am keeping away from him because I don't want anyone to try to take away from my sons accomplishments and progress claim he can't talk and i'm making it up
I just tell them idc what you think the therapists have heard him talk and i'm with my son 24/7 you might see him once a month so idgaf what you think or have to say about it. I don't want either of them around my son. I want people to say encouraging things to my son and tell him how good he doing or how smart he is. Do not criticize him for not doing this or that when he has worked so hard and accomplished so much. I don't introduce my son as autistic because you don't introduce people by their disabilities but by their abilities. You don't tell someone constantly you can't do this or that. We focus on what you can do and work on the things you can't. It causes the person to doubt their abilities and have self-doubt.
Recently my son started saying phrases. The other day I was taking him to the park and when I was buckling him in he said "I don't want to" he said it five times two times not so clearly. Then today my son said "don't go to sleep" because I was laying down on the couch about to fall asleep.
society operates like a manufacturing machine. Schools, work force, higher education. We are all treated like inventory. everybody passes through the same sized little holes, are created in the same size molds and are discarded for having physical flaws that interfere with the items ability to pass through the machine the same way the other items do. Because of this notion it causes the "discarded" people to feel a sense of not belonging or like there is something wrong with them.
There is nothing wrong with anyone who is different. There is something wrong with a society that treats humans like objects and expects everyone to be the same.
He is able to say
hot
hat
cross
circle
heart
rectangle
triangle
hexagon
yellow
dada/mama
up
ball
clap
star
juice
sit
hey
no
square
turn right
turn left
I am so proud of him for saying those words but his dad and grandpa who i am keeping away from him because I don't want anyone to try to take away from my sons accomplishments and progress claim he can't talk and i'm making it up
I just tell them idc what you think the therapists have heard him talk and i'm with my son 24/7 you might see him once a month so idgaf what you think or have to say about it. I don't want either of them around my son. I want people to say encouraging things to my son and tell him how good he doing or how smart he is. Do not criticize him for not doing this or that when he has worked so hard and accomplished so much. I don't introduce my son as autistic because you don't introduce people by their disabilities but by their abilities. You don't tell someone constantly you can't do this or that. We focus on what you can do and work on the things you can't. It causes the person to doubt their abilities and have self-doubt.
Recently my son started saying phrases. The other day I was taking him to the park and when I was buckling him in he said "I don't want to" he said it five times two times not so clearly. Then today my son said "don't go to sleep" because I was laying down on the couch about to fall asleep.
society operates like a manufacturing machine. Schools, work force, higher education. We are all treated like inventory. everybody passes through the same sized little holes, are created in the same size molds and are discarded for having physical flaws that interfere with the items ability to pass through the machine the same way the other items do. Because of this notion it causes the "discarded" people to feel a sense of not belonging or like there is something wrong with them.
There is nothing wrong with anyone who is different. There is something wrong with a society that treats humans like objects and expects everyone to be the same.
26-30, F
