I Adopted a Silent Little Boy After Losing My Children – on My Wedding Day, He Spoke for the First Time, Revealing a Shocking Truth

It felt guarded, like he was always bracing for something.

The file said: “Healthy. No physical cause for mutism.”

They called it selective mutism.

Two families had already given Noah back.

“People struggle with the lack of verbal bonding,” one caseworker told me.

As if love only counts if a child can say it out loud.

When I sat with Noah that first day, he didn’t speak or smile. He just pushed a toy car back and forth across the table.

I gently rolled it back to him.

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