JunoandMaya
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Of course you are tearing up Assa, you should be. You should be so grateful every single day that your daughter has provided you with a life of luxury by exposing her. Also Abbie has been plopping down in public more and more. STOP her while she is going down, TEACH her it's not ok. Like what is going on? why is she regressing so much?
I am wondering if she is just tired of being filmed. They've been shoving a camera in her face for years now, and she has no say in her life at all. They don't honor the choices she makes on her AAC, not to mention, they had just taken her to a pretty crowded restaurant-now they went to a crowded store. Remember, our kids have all the same hormones as any regular teenager. But unlike other teens, they don't have the language to assert their displeasure. The only thing they have is their behavior. The LAST thing my son wants to do in the mornings is go to a crowded restaurant for breakfast. We'd really be tempting fate by sitting next to a fountain full of water. She has no choice but to go wherever they want her to go. At 17 I sure as hell didn't want to go to the grocery store with my parents. Some behaviors can be inevitable with autism/ID, but that doesn't mean we don't work very hard to reduce the chance of them happening at all. Giving our boy a choice of if he wants to go someplace with me or not is probably the best thing we can do to reduce the chance of a negative experience. Just like anyone, our kids have days where they don't want to leave the house, and days where they are up to doing anything. Honoring Abbies choices would be a damn good start.