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A 5-year-old does not actually understand what real words mean yet, children grunt and point a lot. It takes years of experience to assimilate an adult understanding and gradually adapt to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture they are born into. Autism would slow that process down and make complete communication impossible. For example, a person is born into a society that speaks a language, the child becomes a young adult and the family moves to another culture because the father's work was transferred to another country. The family will have to learn a new language. Usually, a child below the age of 10 will adapt and not have a noticeable accent, but the adults will be impaired vocally and utter the new language with an accent for the rest of their lives. Often, the meanings of words differ or do not exist in the same way in all languages. Therefore, what Geordie says is less important than what he does, his wreckless behavior and failure to understand that his curiously bizarre and eccentric mannerisms, his general way of being is why he suffers. This is why the standard practice for families in high society routinely sent their children to a finishing school to polish their untamed childish nature. It was believed that a parent's job was to train their children to get along in life, so their neighbors could stand to live next to them.