Morning Y’all!!!
OMG
.. I just woke a kid up laughing with the “Help Me” picture... I so needed that laugh!!!!
It is crazy in my house y’all... So, excuse me if I don’t get online much....
One thing I wanted to address with the food stealing, ID/D, Autism, cognitive level, etc...
Now, this is for almost every child that you do see on the Autism Spectrum and is one of the clues of why I do see some Autism in Abbie... Children and adults on the Autism Spectrum have highs and lows in certain areas of performance and capabilities...Usually you will see it as a wave, in just a very sub-par scoring. It is a reason that some children get both diagnoses and why some children onlu get an ID/D diagnosis... Abbie understands food and that if she doesn’t grab it, when it is laid down, that she will have it taken away from her.. I have seen IDD children sit in front of a plate of food, not eaten for hours but they also never touched the food... It is a comprehensive/cognitive function that Abbie does excel at...
Also, I do believe that Abbie uses the “looking off/spacing out” to get out of doing chores or an unwanted activity, which for Abbie is just about anything other than eating or rocking...
This two actions are usually done when Abbie is more cognitive functioning and not in a “spaced off” facial feature... When she is spaced off, I see a lot more of the meltdowns because her brain just doesn’t know how to function for what they are requesting, which we don’t see usually the meltdowns but a lot of jump clips and them talking about Abbie having a hard time...