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Me. I talked using sing language in my early years.

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When did you become verbal?

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I don’t fully remember but around 4-6 years old.

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That’s fantastic.

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That might be a hard list to create. While I understand the spirit of the message, I think it would be difficult to objectively define “non-verbal”, then create a list of people that meet that criteria since they would have to publicly self-disclosed. I imagine we would mostly see this with autistic people that are advocates for the autistic community.

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Helen Keller

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I believe Oliver Sacks was non verbal as a child until 5 or 6 and hated music until his teens, where he took an interest in medicine and became a remarkable neuroscientist.

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I have heard many times that Albert Einstein didn’t speak in his early years, so went to fact check it. Turns out it is not true, but I learned a fun fact that is hard to not share:

When he was two years old, his parents made him excited that he would get a little sister to play with. When she was born and he got to meet her, he was slightly confused and asked about the baby: “Where are its wheels?”

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I don’t get it. Why did he think a baby would have wheels??

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Apparently, when they said “to play with” he imagined some sort of of toy. :D

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It’s always tragic to hear about a woman born without wheels :(

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