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Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

— Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

— Carl Jung

Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

— Jim McKay

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

— Alan Cumming

Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.

— Dakota Fanning

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

— Steven Pinker

Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.

— James Adomian

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

— Deborra-Lee Furness

✗Opposing Perspectives

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

— Rich Sommer

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

— Zoe Saldana