Some people think that autistic people can’t talk.
These people are wrong.
Most autistic people can talk.
Some autistic people talked when we were little kids.
Some of us took longer to learn how to talk.
Some of us can talk, but it is hard.
It’s true that some autistic people can’t talk at all.
That’s okay!
There are lots of different ways to communicate.
All autistic people communicate.
It doesn’t matter if we can talk or not.
We can still communicate.