A Tree Falling in the Forest

There once was a little boy who never spoke. Sure, he cried like all the other babies, but after his first year, not a sound. The other babies started to talk, and he remained quiet. His parents took him to specialists all around the world and test after test revealed nothing but a normal child. No one knew why the boy wasn't talking. One night the parents were sitting, eating dinner with their silent boy. His mother put a bowl of chicken soup in front of him. "There is a hair in my soup." The boy said to the parents who stared in disbelief. "you spoke!" the father said. "Of course I did, there is a hair in my soup." The boy said very articulately. "But . . . it's been years, you never spoke. Why didn't you ever say anything?" Said the shocked mother. "Until this hair thing, everything was ok."