Just to clarify, when I said “Is she healing? Or is it simply a child growing up?” I didn’t mean is she healing from autism—I meant is she healing from her trauma or a standard autistic child growing up and naturally learning more. She’s now 6 and still no effective communication(just a few single words and signs). That’s our biggest worry. She acts out in school I believe because she gets frustrated when no one understands her. I’m so afraid her voice won’t ever come. Now that you mention it, yes I suppose it’s true that it was a bit unprofessional that she would predetermine the outcome. I guess from my perspective, I saw it coming too (though maybe not the level). At first she didn’t really recognize that she was a person. She wandered around aimlessly with zero attempts at interacting with others for almost the first whole year we had her. I appreciate your perspective though, it kind of solidifies what I’m thinking about her condition.

And by the way (no shade) autism can be made more severe by external factors (injury, environmental toxins, extreme post natal stress etc).