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- Jul 7, 2019
PL; mother of autistic son, did loads of voluntary work with his school and the neighbouring ones (all special needs) and I've not met oneI have never heard of anyone who switches from verbal to nonverbal before. Nor can I find anything that supports that claim. The closest thing that I can find is that some autistic people find it hard to talk when overwhelmed, though I don't see how an interpreter would be of any use in that situation.
Though I could be wrong. I'm not an expert. But it does sound to me like he's talking shit.
Generally, the kids with ASD will either be verbal - and chatter non-stop in many cases - or be totally non-verbal and either sign or use little computer voice boxes...there was no 'inbetween' as such
Sure, you'd get the odd one clam up and say nothing, whether thinking they were in trouble or in a stressful situation but that's no different to any other 'neurotypical' kid
Methinks it's just more attention-seeking, oppression points, label-using bs from Wedge