12 Things I’ve Learned Growing Up With Autism

A few weeks ago, I was getting ready to go out when I stopped by my parent’s room where they were watching some baby videos of me. In the video, we were at my aunt’s house where I was cheerfully traveling around from room to room while my dad was getting some close up shots of me eating some bacon. While the video continued on, I started to remember that I had seen this video before just about a year back. I was probably the happiest kid you would ever meet, but my speech was not there at all. I made sounds but nothing close to what I should have been saying at one and a half. A year later, I was still non-verbal and even though I started talking shortly thereafter, I got a diagnosis of autism when I was four. Every once in a while now I start thinking about that kid I now watch in the videos and think to myself what would have happened if I never started talking. Would I live a happy life some day as someone who was non-verbal? Today I know of great success stories of people like
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