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So we actually noticed stuff about six months of age where, like,
we . . . we kept having, like, loud noises and, like, he just wasn’t

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paying attention. Like the TV could be on, umm, like he could sleep
through everything it felt like. Or he can just be there in his,

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umm, the rocker and it didn’t faze him that people were walking
by or anything.

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Umm, that . . . that was some of the early signs, and I pushed.
Like I honestly thought that he was deaf, so I pushed to get him

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tested. We did three different hearing tests, umm, and all of them
came back great. And it’s like, “Okay, so what are we missing?”

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Umm, and then a little bit of, umm, after the second hearing test,
umm, we were we were just like, “Something’s amiss.” And our pediatrician

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actually, like, believed, like, there’s something else going on.
Umm, we had to go back because he had gotten sick, and he’s like,

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“I’m noticing some things. I want you guys to come back.” Umm, ’cause
it’s not just that he’s deaf. ‘Cause . . . ’cause he isn’t, obviously.

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Umm, and then that was very helpful I feel like ’cause I—we’ve met
people now, umm, kids that have—that are similar ages as Noah, and

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their doctors didn’t believe them on or didn’t jump on anything
till, like, maybe a few months ago. And that’s—was very heartbreaking

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to hear those stories.

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Umm, something else that we noticed was, umm, the rigidity and
change. Like . . . like every day, I mean you get up, go to work.

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But if for whatever reason—or like it’s a Saturday and like we .
. . we don’t have to leave out the door—it would just be a meltdown.

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Especially that was more little bit over a year old when he was
more aware of ti—umm time that the weekends were actually rougher

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than the weekdays, just because it was—there was no routine, uhh,
or set routine. Those were very early signs, I feel.