"I am, yes," he answered with a nod. He was a rather powerful telepath, actually, but he didn't see the need to tell Erik the extent of his abilities, just yet. Telepath was good enough, and true enough.
"My abilities manifested when I was just a child."
They usually did, with most of the mutants he knew. Not immediately, but after the child started to become independent, started to move towards the teenage years, unless some traumatic event brought it out earlier.
"I suppose yours did as well?" He knew exactly how his Erik had manifested his abilities, but saw no need to bring up trauma if unnecessary.