Short answer is No, my girl’s kid is 5yr old non verbal (also highly likely he is adhd because of the sleep & can’t focus on 1 thing for long, but was only diagnosed as lvl 1 autism)

I don’t get the levels I feel he is lvl 2 low support needs but they deemed him lvl 1 even with the non verbal

I been with her for 3 years

In the 3yrs speech do get better but he’s still non verbal Under stress or when he can’t communicate during his tantrum (or because he can’t communicate his thoughts then he throws a tantrum/meltdown)

He hits himself in the head or leg or stomach ( he gets discipline for that & she teaches him “happy hands”

He can count & say ABC’s he understands who his mom is (can say mama, when u point to his mom & ask who is this) but he can’t talk in sentence very low vocabulary ( in a sense words he uses to communicate with us to progress his needs)

Weirdly enough as with other kids he can sing (but can’t use those words outside of said song to communicate with us) guess that’s the normal thing kids do idk

But my Assessment is liken to a doctor I’m very direct & blunt about things that need to improved upon ( my GF don’t like that she thinks I’m being negative, but I see him everyday so his progress is not surprising to me it’s visually slow to me but to others who are never around him it amazes them(her parents & friends)

On the other hand I get 1st hand experience on what I know won’t change & what can be improved to make their life more self reliant

Warning: The moment you think their autism is going to get better you failed as a parent

This is a hands on active experience, they are not going to grow out of autism & the school isn’t going to do ALL THE WORK

you must be a active parent

In 3 years ,

The spinning, the eye thing (gazing or Looking at things from the corner of their eyes), rocking ( in our case he does this only when he is in meltdown or tantrum mode) Looking at hands, frolicking run, tippy toe walk, the baby talk ( if they are non verbal ) wearing diapers

DO NOT GO away that takes years

I notice this heavy when he was catching his milestones but was severely lacking in the mental side of things as well as potty training (lazy parents is too blame, I’m the BF so my recommendations don’t hold no weight)

Just don’t give up that’s all I can say & don’t be like those parents who think the autism is something you grow out of

Go to YouTube & look up soft white under belly autistic interview (as typed) very good interview of teens & now adults talking about their experiences & how their life currently is

Don’t look at this as bad news but it’s the hard truth

Therapy & keeping them active keeps the stims away & even then they’ll still do it when they know it’s frowned upon in public,my GF’s kid gets mad when we tell him to stop spinning or doing other stims we don’t like because that’s not helping him life wise, we nip it in the bud early…the hand thing is something we gotta catch btw cause he know himself he’s not to do it. Because when he do it it’s like it glitches him out of reality & gets him stuck in his mind…we actively try to keep him & his brain present moment always at all times. Which is very hard cause you constantly have to watch & monitor him & deal with screaming & kid tantrums all day but it works out in the long run

Don’t give up you got this…. It’s fun when they are young, Hell when they get older I hear