Are they still pretending that she just has autism? It's pretty obvious that she is intellectually disabled (which makes using her for their income even more awful and unacceptable)
As an autism parent this is what Is infuriating to me…claiming EVERYTHING is because “she’s autistic”. She is not autistic…she is intellectually disabled (what would used to have been called mental retardation). She CANNOT independently do a single task without constant verbal prompting and assistance. She has zero retained skills.
They have washed their hands of any responsibility to teach or discipline her because special needs parenting is HARD and EXHAUSTING and they are lazy self absorbed people. Instead it’s just “autism” as the reason she can’t attend, do a task, go to the bathroom, etc.
My child has autism but we don't tolerate her jumping on furniture, yelling, etc. because we have rules and boundaries for behavior. We parent and have expectations just like you would with any other child. They have long missed that boat and she is essentially feral at this point. It’s very sad because her quality of life could’ve been so much better had they put in the work and effort.
Diet, supplements, nutritional therapy, chiropractic, etc. they have tried NOTHING to improve her sleep or toileting habits because (insert shoulder shrug) it’s all just part of “autism”. If you look back at the videos she used to be much higher functioning a few years ago….she has regressed and lost a lot of skills as their focus has switched to making money and exploiting her for clicks rather than investing time to actually work with her.
I waffle between thinking they are absolutely in denial about her functioning level and thinking that they are purposely hiding it to milk the “autism” money train and pretend to show progress to attempt to keep people interested.