Imagine having a child who is non-verbal. If a daycare worker told you that the child could actually talk, would you be excited, or would you accuse them of being a liar?

In this story, one daycare owner is surprised to learn that the mom of one fairly talkative little girl thinks the girl is non-verbal.

Now, she’s wondering if it was wrong to prove the girl can talk.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITAH for playing a voice recording to prove to my friend her daughter isn’t nonverbal?

So I (30f) have a friend (34f) that has a “non-verbal” daughter (3f) let’s call her Allie. I watch her 4 days out of the week in my in-home daycare.

I require contracts for every child and she never filled out the special needs section. And at no point when she asked me to take Allie did she mention any type of speech delay or non speaking issue..

Although Allie didn’t speak much at first (I figured she was shy) she communicated her needs to me very well and said small things to me frequently.

Here’s an example of something Allie said.

Last month I was in the bathroom (I keep the door BARELY cracked with a wedge so I can listen for any dangers and they can’t walk in on me or see me) she walked by and said “Ew you stinky”.

I laughed and told her mom at pickup what she said and I was met with “SHE ISN’T VERBAL WHY WOULD YOU MOCK HER”

I reassured her that Allie has spoken to me quite a few times and I thought that it was a huge milestone from when she first arrived and was barely saying anything.

She decided to get proof that Allie was talking.

She told me she didn’t believe me and that it was messed up that I would make up something like that to upset her.

I told her that I wasn’t trying to upset her but I wasn’t lying either. I didn’t press the issue further.

Here’s where I might be the AH. I decided to record Allie (a voice recording, not her face) telling me her name and what her favorite animal is.

She forgot all about the recording.

** I had full intention of showing mom the recording, but I was scared at first because of her blowup at me and I didn’t know how she would react.

After a few short pickups and drop offs she told me it was water under the bridge and that she didn’t want to talk about it anymore. She even insisted that I went to the birthday party.

After that I was just happy Allie could continue and I ended up forgetting I had the recording at all.

She went to Allie’s sibling’s birthday party.

Fast forward to Friday (about a month later) she had a birthday party for her other child.

At the party I was socializing with other family members (Honestly I’m a total dummy for forgetting that her family fully thought that she was nonverbal) I mentioned the funny things Allie has said to me while we were reading an animal book.

Turns out the person I was talking to was her sister and she started yelling at me saying “SHE IS NON-VERBAL WHY ARE YOU LYING”.

Both her and her sister start berating me saying that it’s messed up that I’m making this up about Allie being verbal.

She remembered the voice recording.

At this point I’m tired of being called a liar. I have two disabled children whom my son was non-verbal for many years. I wouldn’t lie about something like this.

So while everybody was staring at me I was scared and felt backed into a corner. So I (remembering I had the recording) decided to prove my case and play the voice recording.

The recording only made them more upset.

Everybody was shocked and my friend told me to leave.

I told her I didn’t want to cause issues but I’m not gonna be berated and called a liar.

She said that I crossed the line recording her daughter and that I’m a jerk for embarrassing her at the party.

Now I feel horrible and wondering if I should have just let it go..

Shouldn’t this family be excited to learn that Allie isn’t non-verbal? Wouldn’t that be great news? Getting so upset about being told she can talk seems pretty wild.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person would be tempted to call CPS.

These are good questions.

I’d think they’d be excited too.

LOL! But that seriously would be better.

Here’s another vote for calling CPS.

Their reaction was really weird.

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