Autism Taking First Steps | 12 Autistic Milestones under 1

Video from our family to yours explaining the milestones of someone with level 1 Autism (Mild), Level 3 Autism (Severe) , and no Autism.
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[@JonBrase]

I was doing single words before I could walk, or, IIRC, crawl (both of which were late). I was saying "what's that" somewhere in the post-12 months range, and full sentences (plus divide-and-conquer tactics with my parents!) around 2 years (there's a story where mom was saving an outfit for a thing at church that I wanted to wear *now*. When she put her foot down, I grabbed it and marched off to the kitchen saying "Daddy will help me!")

[@7Aheadfamily]

Cool. Thank you so much for sharing. That story reminds me of Simon. He will often try the same tactic. ❤️❤️❤️

[@gamegirl57best29]

Hi, my grandson was Dinose for autism a year ago and just got his second dinose last month. Love watch your shows and learning more about autism. I love watch listing and leaning but also love watching the family videos my son and both do, it something we look forward doing to get.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for being so kind!😊😊

[@7Aheadfamily]

What other videos would you like to see?❤️

[@universe_babe4783]

My four year old I believe is autistic he has very repetitive weird behaviors he is sort of verbal just now becoming verbal only with me though and nobody else my four year old was behind on a few milestones, didn’t babble or make eye contact it’s such a long story but girl your page has helped me recognize what it could be thank you so much and bless you

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️ We wish you guys the best. ❤️

[@brookelynrhodes1998]

From what my family said, I was late in many of my milestones. I didn’t crawl until almost a year and didn’t walk until I was 18 months, or something. I did have normal speech development at first until 2 years old when I lost my speech. I didn’t start to talk until I was 4. I had to be in Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy to help me learn.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@7Aheadfamily]

That is interesting about loosing your speech for awhile. Any thoughts on the cause of that?

[@michelledropkin8609]

My son is 10 now but usually kids go through separation anxiety. My son never did, never hit that milestone. I hear about kids that are like 1 feeding a pet at a farm and my son never did that. If you'll hand it to him, he will mouth it and eat it..

[@thomasschoeck9080]

It is good to see that Ezra is able to say “Mama”. Other words may come later. Don’t be surprised if some of his next words end up being swear words (and the like). A kid in my neighborhood who has level two autism didn’t say any words until he was between three and four years old. His first words were “Hi” and “Bye”. Before that he sometimes imitated animal sounds just like Simon would do, except at least a year later. Other times he would repeat the actual sounds that an animal makes (such as barking, meowing, or chirping). It was only in the Spring or Summer of last year (age five) that he started asking questions like “What’s that?” (It came out sounding more like “What that?”). He was also able to ask questions like “Where’s Mama?”, “Where’s Dada?” and “Where’s Nana?”. By Summer of last year he would also sometimes ask for a bathroom break when he needed one and started reacting to wetting accidents, and the like. Around Thanksgiving he used his first four-letter word (predictably the one that means “poop”). He turned Six not long after that. Now on a good day he talks almost as much as other kids his age (in terms of how much he talks, but not in terms of vocabulary) but on bad days he still needs to use his iPad to communicate (I think it’s the same app that Ezra uses.) so he still goes back and forth on this. If Ezra starts talking more his speech development might follow a similar pattern, in terms of the sequence.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Yes, thank you for sharing that ❤️.

[@nathanfortier7478]

I'm an autistic 20 year-old (diagnosed at 18 years old as level 1). I used to babble a lot to myself when I was younger but, I didn't actually speak until I was 8 years old and after at least 5 years of speach therapy. When I was probably between 3 to 8 years old, my older brother could understand me but, no one else. Around 6-ish, my parents started to understand me but, once again, no one other then them and my brother understood me (or so I was told when I was older). It's only when I hit third or fourth grade that people outside of my close family (teachers, classmates, etc) could understand me. I was always in regular school but, I was taken out of school very often for speach therapy until third grade when we moved to another country. It then took me another 2 years for classmates to understand me since I was now learning to speak 3 languages at the same time. I eventually managed with broken english and french international, alternating between both until people understood me. That's why I'm not sure if I learnt to talk in third or fourth grade, i believe I was around 8 or 9 years but, not super sure about it. It might have been different if we hadn't moved at that time but, I made it in the end and it was worth it. The result of this is that, even now, if I get too tired, I'll think that I can speak but others will stop understanding me because it still requires a certain amount of focus for me to be able to speak

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing!🩷🩷 It is very cool to hear about many different stories!🩵🩵

[@victorfriess8450]

Super interesting video and lovely to see footage from all of your kids! Regarding masking, I'm autistic (Level 2) and tried to mask a lot when I was younger to try and fit in but wasn't very good at it anyway and now as an adult I don't really mask at all anymore because it is EXHAUSTING. I will still do it subconsciously because it is a hard habit to let go off, but it is incredibly freeing to not mask anymore and accept my autistic self more and more. As for milestones, it took me even longer than Ezra to walk, I was about 2 years old. I actually talked in full sentences before I could walk. And my first word wasn't the classic "Da" or" "Ma" it was "dog" when I saw a dog while in my stroller😅 I've always loved dogs and they've been a special interest all my life! So my verbal skills were precocious but my motor skills were far behind other kids.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you so much for sharing!❤️❤️❤️

[@tamaraanderson7260]

I love seeing all the videos of all the kids!! They are all so cute!!

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you so much for being so kind!❤️❤️❤️

[@thomasschoeck9080]

I think I was around twelve months old before I said my first word (which was “moon”). My second and third words “cat” and “clock” would come about six months later. I was either two or (more likely) three before I started saying other words.

[@7Aheadfamily]

That’s a cool first word. Thanks for sharing. ❤️❤️

[@thomasschoeck9080]

@@7Aheadfamily Because of this my parents assumed that I would become an astronomer. That did not happen.

[@7Aheadfamily]

😂😂

[@thomasschoeck9080]

I don’t remember this far back but my parents tell me that I started crawling around eight or nine months.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thanks for sharing ❤️

[@aysenuri2419]

Ezra when he was a baby stole my heart I’m serious

[@7Aheadfamily]

Ezra is very cute!❤️❤️❤️

[@thomasschoeck9080]

I was at least 14 months old when I started walking. In my case I’m not only on the spectrum but also have a mild form of cerebral palsy so it might have played a role in this delay. I don’t clearly remember this but my parents told me that I tried to walk around Christmas Time shortly after I turned one and I took a step or two and started to fall, grabbed the tree and hit my head on the Christmas Tree Stand around fourteen months. My parents tell me that I still have a mark on my forehead from this but I have never seen it. They tell me that it was at least a few weeks to a month before I tried to walk again. Years later during a transcranial ultrasound a doctor in Marseille, France told me that he could see a an injury on the front left and another on the back right of my brain 180 degrees apart. He asked me if I fell down and hit my head when I was younger. I told him the story that I mentioned above and he said that it would definitely explain what he was seeing. He also told me that I was lucky because if I fell at a slightly different angle I would have lost function in my primary visual cortex (That would have resulted in cortical blindness. Luckily I avoided that, instead just losing depth perception, facial recognition, and most of my color vision). He could also see the areas that were damaged by the right hemisphere stroke when I was born.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Wow. That’s crazy. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️❤️❤️

[@TheQuietpanda]

idk much about my milestone cus im adopted but i apparently started walking around 4 years old and i started speeking wen i was 5 and ive never been good at eye contact and its realy anoying when a teacher says look at me so i know you are listening. masking is harmful but for my is sadly nesosery for me because im in a main stream school and its realy not nice

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing your story ❤️. Yes, masking can be very harmful. Thank you for raising that awareness.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Do they have any possibilities for charter schools or anything like that where you live?

[@TheQuietpanda]

@@7Aheadfamily what is a charter school?

[@TheQuietpanda]

@@7Aheadfamily if its what i think it is i couldent go to one cus i masked so much people fort i wasnt autistic but there are a couple of times i wasnt and i think thats why it took 9 years to get diegnosed because of the evedence side of it

[@7Aheadfamily]

It’s just a school that is not a government institution, so sometimes they’re a little smaller and their rules can be different.

[@thomasschoeck9080]

My parents tell me that I was standing up around ten or eleven months with help.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Nice!

[@IzzyS94]

My mom told me that I was a little delayed than my brother and sisters at some of my milestones. I did not have speech delay. Sometime after I had tubes in my ears I started saying more words which was around 4 or 5. I am sensitive to sounds. I stimmed when I was younger and I still stim. I think I may have masked sometimes. I was diagnosed at the age of 14 with Level 1 autism.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing🩷

[@thomasschoeck9080]

Between what I remember and what my parents tell me I think I was about a year old (like Simon) when I started to recognize and respond to my own name. But even in grade school (grades one through five (ages seven through eleven)) I didn’t do it every time. This is why I was taken to a specialist to have my hearing tested around (I think) third or fourth grade.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing that, I believe you mentioned that before. Why is it that you wouldn’t respond sometimes? Do you remember?

[@thomasschoeck9080]

@@7Aheadfamily I think I would get so involved in an activity like writing or coloring that I wouldn’t notice that someone (such a a teacher or teacher’s aide) was calling my name.

[@7Aheadfamily]

OK, I see, so just very focused on what you were doing.

[@thomasschoeck9080]

@@7Aheadfamily The upside of that is that I recently passed an exam about computer networking (and related topics) with very little real-world networking experience. I am now studying BGP and other more advanced networking topics to get my networking knowledge to the next level. After that I plan to study for another exam that relates to the topic of Network Design. I think that a job title of Network Designer might be more in line with my interests and level of experience than Network Engineer.

[@7Aheadfamily]

That’s awesome! Congratulations and good luck. 😊

[@MichaelOliver-ry7fj]

Amazing practical insight my dear! So, my Own Autism was uncharted and Result of "Two Severe TBI's" Before Age of Ten! Yet, having told you this, at 20 in 1966 was Drafted by The S.S.! (30,000 Warm bodies every month! For Johnson's War). 😂😊 *#BigLoveEzra!!

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting!❤️💜❤️

[@7Aheadfamily]

We appreciate you!❤️💜❤️

[@thomasschoeck9080]

Maybe one of your next videos could be about developmental milestones after one year.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Love that! Yes, we will definitely do that. 😊

[@manuelam.3589]

My.son has AD(H)D without the H and he was crawling just one day when he was 8 months old, than he stand up in the evening of the same day and begun to walk 🤣🙈 he was walking without help with 10 months. Speaking with 15 months in 2-word-sentences. He is not autistic, but I know this stimming from him too, spinning around, running back and forth and making noises for example are thing, that my son does too to calm down himself sometimes. He is 10 years old now and we know this "masking" too, because lot of poeple thinks bad things about kids with AD(H)D, so he must act neurotypical sometimes to avoid stigmatism. He is a good kid, very clever, have a lot of friends, but a dreamer too and overhelmed very quickley with "surprises", with unexpected things. When he is coming home from school, I see this mask he putting on every morning, falling down from him and his relief. Its very hard to be different in this world. 😢

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for watching and sharing❤️❤️

[@thee_hash_slinging_slasher]

I wish this wasn't true but we live in a neurotypical centric world and masking may be necessary in some aspects of life unfortunately.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Yeah, lots of issues with that for sure.

[@kalegolas]

I masked so much so my brain started to shut down and I started to develope a bunch of different diseases and I learned from helfcare that I almost masked myself to death… so I will try to never mask again but if its done at a healthy way I guess its okay… but after my experience I am to scared to do so.

[@7Aheadfamily]

So sorry that you had to go through such a hard time💕💕

[@7Aheadfamily]

A big hug from all of us here at 7-Ahead!❤️❤️❤️

[@hojjoj]

I have a mom of a 15 month old baby boy. He lives with hypotonia, and he is not autistic. Very misleading of your video about the moving problems, it can cause several things.

[@7Aheadfamily]

You’re right, thank you for sharing. These are simply typical milestones, and our experience with our children. As mentioned in the video, if you have any concerns, you need to get a professional opinion. This video is simply there to educate and raise awareness.

[@laurareznick9097]

Isn't 15 months a little early to definitively know that your son is not autistic? Not saying he is obviously, but I thought you don't really know until a few years old.

[@katerinaptrv]

​@@laurareznick9097 What I hear specialist doctors say about it is that any development delay can be an early sign of something, not necessarily autism. But if there is a delay, things are going in the normal rate, it can be irrelevant and the child progresses after or can be. Multiple delays in many areas are even strong signs. So most specialists advocate not to close a final diagnosis in a very small child but to already start interventions and support tools and therapy, some kind of stimulation for the delay that child is presenting. If they are not autistic or something else it will not do any harm and maybe even help reach milestones faster. In the case they are autistic or something else, this early intervention will prove immensely helpful and put them in the right track earlier in the support they will need.

[@ay3696]

With autism it’s not just to pick out one thing from the videos one milestones that’s not met normally it is a few . I know my son has autism at 9 months old and I don’t know anyone with autism but I knew something wasn’t right i use to look at these kind of videos looking for answers and I never came away thinking my son definitely doesn’t have autism

[@hojjoj]

@@laurareznick9097 my son was born with a lack of oxygen which causes the hypotonia. I think it is very useful for parents to make videos like this, my problem was that movement problems do not clearly caused by autism and vice versa. A little one can be hypotonic and autistic at the same time, but he may be fine with gross motor movement, but he is autistic. I know a little boy like that.

[@tatyldm908]

My daughter met all milestones until 1. Then everything slow down and kinda stop. Signals started after 2 and 3 besides speech delay

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing!😊😊

[@mysterfan7649]

My mom said I never crawl but did scoot than walk at late at almost 2 years old That was due to hypotonia because of my chromosome 18p deletion.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing! We appreciate you!💕💕

[@CaraHTheRealCie]

My son will be 34 in nine days. I wish I'd had good information from someone like you. I never even considered the idea that he could be autistic because my understanding of autism was flawed. I thought all people with autism were nonverbal and couldn't socialize properly. My son started memorizing the stories we read him at a young age and repeating them back to us. He was very bright but just "different." I didn't realize that some of the things he was doing were stimming, such as picking fabric pills off his sweater. He didn't tend to act out but would withdraw when he felt overwhelmed. He's very sensitive to sounds. He's also good at masking. As I said, I wish I had known because I could have been more supportive in certain situations.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you for sharing your story about your son!💕💕

[@kalaloomis9665]

How do I encourage my 8 mounth old to crawl

[@7Aheadfamily]

One way to do this is to lie next to your baby and support their abdomen while they are on all fours. Gently hold most of your baby's body weight while still allowing their hands and feet to touch the ground. This will get them familiar with the feeling and movements of crawling. But remember that just because your child hasn't crawled by 8 months doesn't mean that there is something wrong with them. They are still within the typical age range for developing this skill and learning to crawl. Hope this helps❤️

[@Tor_nado_89]

Ezra knew his name LONG before that, he just doesn't wanna make a big deal about what's going on, lol.

[@7Aheadfamily]

Thank you so much for commenting💕💕

[@Tor_nado_89]

@@7Aheadfamily No problem, I notice a lot more than I let on too.

[@7Aheadfamily]

😊💕💕

[@littlejonathorn6860]

❤🎉

[@7Aheadfamily]

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