I think her is on a speech journey, remember speech isnt just about how we use sounds and words. I think his area of need in speech is pragmatics, like social understanding of language… this is why she says “invisible needs” as she believes they are invisible even though this type of speech, language and communication need is frequently the one that a lot of neurodivergent people have.
Ron is probably autistic, the reason she won’t say it right now is
A) it pisses her off tattle spotted the signs when that kid was just a baby because it was so obvious.
B) she’s got some deal to sell this part of her sons life and is waiting for the time to share it. I’m guessing a book deal, “Ron’s journey with autism”
c) she lives in an area where they don’t diagnose autism till a certain age (in my area is age 4) so he has some other diagnosis at the moment, maybe something like developmental language disorder which might then change to autism spectrum disorder with an speech, language and associated need associated with that.
Ron seems to have challenges with lots of non verbal communication, we’ve seen him in the background in social settings to and, eg remember when he was the only child spinning around and “in his own world” at a party? This is apart of communication. Either she gets a diagnosis and supports him or our other theory is she’s always been embarrassed and Ron might mask his whole life. For example. That spinning at the party told me he was over stimulated so perhaps the spinning was him self soothing to calm down.
Also, without outing my kid too much (I don’t think this will) my son is autistic and HATES the camera so I very rarely use it as much as I want to. He shuts down like Ron. He doesn’t like being “watched” like that, fortunately I don’t try and force him to perform for me and I certainly won’t for strangers either
