BreakfastImmediate99

So my daughter is level two autistic. She started saying single words at two or three and then mostly still just single words even at four other than really extensive memorized scripts from her favorite shows or books at five we started getting demands and questions which were organic speech and short sentence form and now that she's six, she is trying to initiate back-and-forth conversations about things she wants to do things that are on her mind how she's feeling it's been really amazing to watch, but it's interesting when she was four and five we had an ABA therapist go with her to a Montessori type school of kids age 3 to 5, which were all Neurotypical and we had expected her language

I see on here how regulating the tablet can be and that it especially helps a gestalt language processor gain more language, we've had spurts of it since my daughter was 4 to 5. Gave it up for a year and then took another 6 months off, we thought we'd try it again now that's she's 6 (she only gets it at home) but since bringing it back she's been scripting to herself nonstop, having a hard time pulling her out of it when we need her to focus on answering something or engaging in convo, she's been really mouthing non edible items a ton more again (not sure if related), and overall really emotionally dysregulated. Not to mention she won't even look at her toys or books anymore.

Anyone else's

Ok so initially I was pretty annoyed with this situation but now I'm just laughing at it.

My level 1-2 6 year old has had abdominal and sleep issues most her life, just the last year it's gotten significantly better. I'm a psych NP and I do believe to some degree the gut microbiome plays a role in how we think and feel.

So we end up seeing a pretty respectable holistic health center near our house, paid $500 for the first visit, then $1100 on a bunch of gut, urine, and blood tests, then another $500 on a visit to go over the results. The results were 69 pages that overwhelmed me but the practitioner explained that my daughter had candida overgrowth which I could see, she sounded convincing

I feel like my daughters form of play that's she's always preferred has been acting out scene by scene her favorite shows or books, she's always been able to memorize the entire episode word for word or book after 1 watch or read through and does all the characters voices. She uses organic speech to comment on the world, ask a question, tell us her wants and needs, etc.

I guess my question is why is this considered stimming but a little girl playing with Barbies isn't? Just wondering if this is something we need to help her tone down, she's 6 now and can get pretty wrapped up in that little world especially at home.

FYI, I waited exactly 1 hour and 14 minutes to talk to a loss mitigation rep at my mortgage company today. I asked if they were short staffed and he said not at all, they just have that many people in loss mitigation right now 🫠

We have 2 gray Nebelungs, they're 9 years old (brothers) and we've had them since they were kittens. They've always been amazing cats but over the past year they've been destroying my basement with cat poop and urine. They've been medically cleared. They poop right outside the box or in random spots in the basement, I've taken to scooping the boxes daily and changing it completely out every few days because I'm so paranoid. I can't take my house smelling like this, we love these cats so much but I have to say this is repulsing me.

Honestly, her daughter seems like she could be way more ahead and independent if Olivia didn't infantilize her as much.

I see 2 clients that are brothers one is level 1 and one is level 3, here's the interesting differences:

level 1: struggles with social interactions, extremely selective eater, more emotional reactivity, poor sleep

Level 3: totally comfortable in the playground, eats anything and everything, no outbursts, sleeps soundly.

My daughter just turned 6 and has been asking questions lately, her favorite : "what are you doing?" Or "where is etc", but who knew something so small could feel so magical?

My daughter is level 1-2...potty trained, no motor delays, dresses/feeds herself, no receptive delay but speech delay/language delay has always been her most autistic trait. She is a GLP, she uses functional language to request things or make comments about the world/how she's feeling/what she sees but she gets into intense scripting, talking to herself by scripting a whole episode of something.

I often question myself, she has such an amazing memory what if we didn't let her have access to TV at such a young age? Would she have developed speech from us instead?

I'm so proud of how far she's come, she didn't start using single words till 3 besides mama/dada/milk all that and sentences unt

I can't find the exact quote but an autism creator on Tik Tok recently said : "some parents will do everything (referring to all the OT, ST, ABA, IEP at early ages) and their child will still not catch up and some parents will do nothing and their child just catches up naturally.

I'm a parent of a level 1-2 little girl and I know how vicious looking into the crystal ball can be. I'm also a pediatric psychiatric NP and I believe the sentiment up above to be so true. You all wouldn't believe how many kids don't get supports and just end up acclimating while some kids have the supports since 18 months and are still profoundly affected by their disability.

Is anyone else on the autism Tik Tok algorithm totally weirded out by this guy?

Has there ever been mention of other friends or family that actually know them?? I'd love if they posted a tell all or something. The comment about clinicians being in their home either means: A) Seattle children's really goes above and beyond to ensure a transition or B) child services was involved.

I 10000% agree w yall that Olivia totally is a fake and I can see right through her, total victim mentality. But only thing I want to correct is that her daughter is on a behavioral health unit. I've been in psych a long time, no family member is allowed to go in and out of a psych unit like that, it's very strict.