Overthinking speech delayed son’s birthday

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My son turns 3 this month and is speech delayed (has around 50 words and is just starting to put 2/3 words together although his clarity is quite poor).

I talk to him about his birthday and explain we will have a cake etc but because he’s not quite there with language/conversing I don’t think he will understand the concept of birthdays and that it will be ‘his’ day.

I know he’s only young and has lots of time to catch up (we are under SALT and ENT) but I just feel incredibly sad about it. I know I’m being unreasonable as he’s a happy little soul and making great progress but I can’t help overthinking it.

Neither of my dc really understood the fuss on their third birthdays. Fourth birthdays they had got the gist of it!

Aw you don't need to feel sad about it, even if he doesn't know it's "his" day, you can still make it so it's fun for him and he has a nice time. 3 is still very young,

My son is delayed and he didn't have a clue on his birthdays when he was a toddler 😅 but he enjoyed having a nice time x

Agree with pp. my DD is very verbal at 3yo and fully conversational… she still didn’t care for the fuss or really ‘get it’! We went to Centre parcs and did a small family thing instead, sang happy birthday in the evening and ate cake. She had a blast and I’m sure you son will too x