You can't train a kid to be autistic, he displays signs in the videos she shares - it was first suggested by tattlers long before he was diagnosed
She's still a dick - I've blocked her from everything after this weekends antics. I'll watch on iganony - it's been nice not to see the dysfunction and manic behavior tbh
I think the thing that grates on everyone is that she paid for this extreme diagnosis. I know you can’t train a child to be autistic, and he shows some small traits, but why?
He stims to cope with anxiety/overwhelm - he lives in a chaotic house where his parents are never present and everyone is always shouting and swearing. Despite what she says, there is no fucking routine.
He only eats beige/dry food - he’s never been given the chance to eat a family meal, he’s lived on sweets and cola. The marmite disaster the other day shows he doesn’t have sensory issues.
We were all concerned he was non verbal at one point - a few days at a CM and then starting nursery and he can speak - he was just never spoken to at home, he’s not non verbal at all.
The lining things up and the repetitive behaviour has been thoroughly encouraged - and he only started this when he was evidently no longer non verbal. And we’ve seen lines that he clearly hasn’t been able to do.
And now she’s going for the wearing a nappy forever - we can see him showing signs of wanting to toilet train, but she ignores them.
If he’d been parented right from the start, how much of this would we even notice?
PS my argumentative attitude is to her shit parenting, not to your message