{KAYLA}
"We have some options, Mrs. White. Doing a diagnosis for autism spectrum disorder is one of them, but Livie might just be taking her time. Her hearing is good, and she can certainly express herself in other ways. Some children choose not to talk for a long time."
I can't stop running those words in my head, over and over again. Three weeks after Nate officially moved into my house on the North Shore, he suggested taking Livie to a child psychiatrist. It's the kind of doctor I could have never afforded before, but Nate said we don't have to worry about that now, and he wants to make sure everything is okay with her. I had started whatever tests I could afford around the time she turned one. I already knew she had no life-threatening illness, no disability.
That her hearing was fine too.
My daughter doesn't want to talk, and we will accept her the way she is. We will take it one step at a time.
