No, this isn’t a joke. My son is 4 years old and was diagnosed with ASD about a year ago. He’s not very verbal although he says words, but not too clearly, and sometimes short phrases. He does verbal stimming where he babbles and laughs to himself and makes other noises. As a very young child, before he showed any signs of autism, he was a very neurotypical child up until about 20 months old. He has what the doctor said is regression because he talked, made eye contact, related to others, and… read more