Lisa Simmons

And as he progressed through the stages that babies go through,

He was always on the tail end of the scale.

And the doctors kept telling me, I'm just comparing him to Justin.

Don't compare your kids.

Don't compare your kids to other kids.

But you kind of have to.

If you're a mom and you see that your child is still just laying there on the ground and everybody else is sitting up and they're playing with things and they're interacting,

That's okay to compare that.

You know that something's wrong.

So, you know, we went through all of those things until he was almost three.

And then finally, a doctor, because he wasn't talking.

He was saying words here and there.

But he wasn't talking as an almost three-year-old you would expect.

Based on the fact that we have a two-year-old granddaughter now, that's very verbal.

And Justin was very verbal.

And, you know, again, I tried not to compare, but you kind of have to.

This doctor finally said, well, let's get his hearing tested.

And that is what set us on the road to finding out, okay, what...

Kind of exactly what we're dealing with, although really the word autism was not spoken.

There was no genetic testing to be done at that time.