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Can you talk/walk at a normal age and still have autism? My mom said I started talking at around 12 months and started walking at around 24 months.

Isn't starting to walk at 2 years old a bit late?

I started walking at 11 months and said my first real word at 13 or 14 months. I was fully potty-trained by 22 months.

Starting walking at age 2 is considered “late.”

Most children start walking by 15 months.

I’m confirming with my mom so I can know for sure.

Ok I was mistaken. I started walking at around 16 months.

yes, many autistic folks seem to develop "normally" on many points yet still have other struggles that are due to unique neurological development.

I did walk and talk on time, but I also was a very very early reader.

As I got older it was evident that I did not walk "normally", my posture was very poor, and that I lacked co-ordination, falling and running into things, dropping things... that has continued to this very day at age 70.

I walked at about 12 months.

I started talking at age 5 1/2.

Apparently I had no delays with speech compared to other toddlers.

I was one of the last in my class to learn to read. I must have been about 7 before I could read, while most of the other children could already read. I seemed to be on the same reading level as the kids with learning difficulties. Maybe it was because I didn't like reading, or because of attention span issues that never got addressed.

I've yet to discover any developmental delays that I had. I remember reading aloud much more fluently than the other kids when I was about 5, and within a year or so the teachers noticed and got me to read a story to a class (I guess they thought I could do the teacher's job for her). But it came unstuck because they let me pick whatever story I liked, and I just selected one at random. It was a cowboy story and they'd spelled the words in the dialogue to reflect the cowboy way of talking. I could barely read it intelligibly, and they stopped me after a while and abandoned the venture. I was only good at reading proper English.

I could write very neatly when I focussed on it, but sometimes I'd just go too fast and make a mess of it. I had good comprehension skills, my use of grammar and syntax was advanced for my age. I remember having to write a synopsis of a story we'd been told, and glibly dropping in a phrase "the prize will be given by the loser," which they loved because it used the passive voice, which they hadn't taught us yet. They saw me as a bright kid. They made all the others show them a rough draft of their written things and then go back and do it properly when it had been corrected, but they let me just do the first draft because I hardly made any mistakes at all.

I don't know when I started walking, but there's no evidence that it was particularly late.

didn't talk until i was almost 4 according to my folks. they took me to a kid shrink who did his best to figure out why i was not talking, then he had a brainstorm and got in my face and shouted at me, "TALK!" and i shouted back at him, "NO!!"

According to my father i started walking and talking before my 1st birthday. .I'd begun to read some time before the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest in the autumn of 1960. I didn't know that indexes put the surname first , so would say 'Disney Walt'

Thank you all for the information.