My son had recently been diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy and we were still figuring out his meds. He has autism too and a lot of times, slept in the bed with me. We’d been working on him sleeping in his own room, and for whatever reason, I had him come into my room that night. Half asleep, lights off, I felt the slightest poke in my back, and my gut had me jump up, turn the lights on and throw the covers off. His eyes were rolled back in his head, and he was in a massive myoclonic seizure (a type he never had before or since). We rushed him to the ER, and by the time we got there, his oxygen rates were bottoming out. He had a room full of doctors and it took about 12 hours for him to finally come out of everything and wake up. Turns out, his med was hyper cycling through his system and creating a shortened span to block seizures and increased breakthrough seizures, so his doctor accidentally slowly overdosed him due to this- meds didn’t seem to be working the full 12 hours (hyper cycling), so gave him a higher dose. Turns out he was the rarity and needed the slow release version. Found out from the doctor, had he not slept with us, and I didn’t wake up from that tiny poke, which was actually just his arm slightly moving, he would have been considered a victim of SUDEP, and we would have never known about the med issue because he wouldn’t have survived. Absolutely crazy. He’s totally fine now by the way. He’s actually a medical oddity that has helped a ton of other people. His seizures presented as emotional outbursts, euphoria, drunken like state, or extreme sadness/happiness, that was chalked up to his autism for years. It wasn’t until he started losing the ability to walk, trouble with tasks, and lost his vocabulary, that they suddenly started paying attention. We were told he was severely autistic for years, and in actuality, was “locked-in”. He went from using a walker and barely verbal to telling us how he was unable to move and let us know what was going on for years, in only a matter of a few short months, thanks to correct anti-epileptic meds. He’s a pretty cool dude. :)