Yes, same with my brother. He was marginally verbal, but they tried to remove him from school because they said he was non-verbal and illiterate, but my dad recorded him talking about the books he read and told them to STFU and teach him. Nobody else had it so doctors and teachers were all mystified.
A problem I have with "the spectrum" is it trivializes autism to the the extent that people say "we're all on the spectrum" and they mean it. Like saying we all breath, we all have this condition to some level, which means it's not even a thing. Which is BS.
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