I don’t know any person that consciously remembers the first few of years, but his mother does.
When your child is developing “normally” and then overnight loses speech, eye contact and begins to scream covering his ears due to the extremely LOUD bug in the room that drives him to insanity, you kind of figure, SOMETHING HAPPENED.
I was advised by numerous “experts” to medicate. I said “NO”
After multiple biological tests and working with “alternative” practitioners all his symptoms, that surely would never allowed him to be functional, have been eliminated.
He does however remember being autistic!