... I shouldn't really say not talking. He is very communicative, through his own little language, facial expressions and gestures we can understand what he says around 70% of the time. He makes really long speeches in his own language and it really does feel like he is trying to tell us something.
There's only 18 actual understandable words that he uses on a daily basis (a few more if you count animal noises) and some others that we have a feeling that he's says but can't confirm because we only heard them once or twice.
I must point out that we are Portuguese and only speak Portuguese in front of him unless there's a foreign person present and that we live in Canada and he has a Canadian nanny who can only speak English.
People keep on telling me that boys develop later than girls but, both my husband and one of my brothers were very advanced by his age and I myself was an early talker.
I do have another brother who has Asperger's and this keeps always ringing a small alarm bell on the back of my mind. I tend to rule it out because ds is extremely sociable, with great eye contact and loves being hugged so much that he would hug any random stranger if we'd let him.