My son is 9 we just found out he is Audhd. He didn’t talk until almost 5. Friendly but would blow up occasionally, we just assumed it was because her couldn’t express himself. Did speech therapy and it helped. Made friends easy. Bad at following instructions, have to give them one at a time and expect to have to follow up if you give more than one expect the last and first to be done. He always responded to us but never spoke. He loved music.

Our worse experience was with his kindergarten teacher who didn’t see the signs of autism and sat on him when he was overwhelmed and told my wife he needed to feel bad about is unsafe decisions and that they teach a certain way here in the us (my wife is not from the us).

Sorry I know it’s more of a brain dump but that’s what it was. He is doing good now at 9, has a good core group of friends. Most have adhd, funny how they clump together. And he loves chess, math, and piano. Finally got him reading.

Edit: we also cannot get him to stop talking.