A mom heard her daughter who is nonverbal and has autism say 'mama.'
Her mom stopped in the middle of the McDonald’s drive-thru to capture it on video
Briana Blankenship was going through an ordinary day in the life of a busy mom when suddenly, her world screeched to a halt. Her daughter said her first word, and it was cause for much celebration. The caption reads, “I am ugly crying in the McDonald’s parking lot and the employees probably think I’m crazy. In the drive thru I suddenly heard Taylor say MAMA.” Blankenship explains that five-year-old Taylor had never said a word before that moment.
Blankenship tells us she had more or less accepted that she’d never hear Taylor’s voice. That night, the mom was grabbing her daughter dinner before gymnastics class, which Taylor participates in as part of some “thinking outside the box” therapy that the family had decided to do on their own. Of the reaction to the incredible video, Blankenship says, “We have had so many messages from people that we are giving them hope for their loved ones, or that we are making them feel less alone in the daily battles of parenting a nonverbal child.”
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