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You guys my 5 year old daughter with autism and GDD has gone pee on the potty once she’s home from grandmas 3 DAYS IN A ROW!! She’s gone twice for me today and yesterday. We are stinkin proud of her!! 🥳

Good morning!! I have a thought/“hot take” about autism that wanted to share to see what you all think too 🥰

There’s a fine line between pushing your autistic child too hard and letting them live in a safe, contained “bubble”. If you know their limits, keep them safe and avoid the activity/social gathering. Especially if they’re hyper aware of sounds or crowds.

BUT, what if you just tried giving them 5 extra minutes? What if we let them sit in that discomfort and see what they do? Your child might surprise you ❤️

So my MIL is basically trying to tell me and my husband where to send our 5 year old autistic daughter to school for kindergarten 😒 I’m over it.

Here’s some back story. My 12 year old nephew is also autistic but he’s been in a couple different private schools; never tried public. And that’s great for him! It’s working out for him and he’s making great progress. However, my daughter’s autistic traits are completely different from his.

First, my daughter has been in early intervention since she was 18 months old. And then once she aged out, she went straight to preschool at 3 years old. It was a rough transition at first, but now she absolutely loves school. She did 2 years of preschool and has made great progress in her therapies. Shes pretty well regulated in the classroom and she just fits in well in public school (of course that might change over time).

However, on top of being autistic my daughter also has a global developmental delay and a pretty significant speech delay. She’s verbal but it’s pretty limited. But the school she goes to doesn’t have any problem with that and is happy to work with her.

With all of that to say, why the heck is my MIL telling me to send my kid to my nephews school instead?! Her “concern” is that she’s still not talking as much as she should. But there’s no “magic” school that can get to her to talk. That takes time and patience and a comfortable school setting.

I’m so sorry this is a long post, but I just don’t get it. She’s claiming “well your the parents it’s your decision” but she has a pretty clear idea in her mind that public school is “not the right choice.” Whatever, we’re making the right choice for our daughter.

Thank you for reading 😊

Advice needed please!! My 5 year old daughter is level 3 ASD + global developmental delay. She is very smart (too smart sometimes 😉) so she fully understands the concept of going potty and when mommy goes pee I’m the potty.

However, she absolutely REFUSES to go potty. She will hold out all day if she could until we put a pull up back on.

If she does have an accident, it’s like she doesn’t even notice/care. How do we over come this?! My husband and I both work outside the home full time so my MIL tries to help too with no luck.

Has anyone been thru something similar?

Advice needed please!! My 5 year old daughter is level 3 ASD + global developmental delay. She is very smart (too smart sometimes 😉) so she fully understands the concept of going potty and when mommy goes pee I’m the potty.

However, she absolutely REFUSES to go potty. She will hold out all day if she could until we put a pull up back on.

If she does have an accident, it’s like she doesn’t even notice/care. How do we over come this?! My husband and I both work outside the home full time so my MIL tries to help too with no luck.

Has anyone been thru something similar?