“I’m not broken. Just because you can’t understand me does not mean I’m not communicating”

Last year when I came home, my favorite niece (yes, she is the only one) asked to take Mateo to meet her friends. She wanted to introduce him since she had been trying to explain to them about him and autism. But some couldn’t understand or grasp the term ‘non-verbal’. To help explain that term, I thought I’d take you through the journey of our quest for spoken language.