11/01/2026
Wow this wording is perfect...its Eden, so Eden can now talk with a few quirky sentences, but her behaviour and emotions are still VERY VERY extreme...I get the stares from other parents, the older generation look at me like I 'should be telling her off "
Saturday at swimming, she kept screeching in excitement.... looks and people tutting, raising thier eyebrows at us!
Then a meltdown of screaming and biting herself getting out the pool....more side eyes..but this time more sympathy stares as her behaviour "looked MORE like autistic behaviour "
Its actually a weird place to be....not profound autism, not mild, but somewhere in-between!! 🤔
Everyday is filled with love but every day and night is different and designed to cause as little/few triggers as possible.
Melatonin is now helping her sleep 😴 we are soooo grateful 🙏
Read this .....
“Moderate autism.”
Level 2.
It’s the kind people notice…
but don’t understand.
It’s when strangers can tell something is different
yet because your child can speak sometimes,
they decide it must be bad parenting.
It’s when meltdowns are mistaken for misbehavior.
When sensory overload is labeled “spoiled.”
When regulation is expected instead of supported.
It’s autism that isn’t “invisible” enough to be ignored
and isn’t “severe” enough to be believed.
So you live in the middle.
Explaining. Advocating. Defending.
Every single day.
And still..
this is autism that requires substantial support.
Support with regulation.
Support with communication.
Support navigating a world that was never designed for them.
Your child isn’t “bad.”
You aren’t failing.
And autism doesn’t have to look a certain way
to be very real.
