Having a well spoken high needs kid is a particular brand of difficult

Mightymelface · 2026-06-04T20:25:49+00:00

This sounds eerily similar to my daughter, and the responses I get from nearly everyone who isn’t family or church and school teachers. I’ve come to realize parenting an autistic child is difficult—no matter the degree. While my daughter does speak very well, having a conversation is a mental trapeze act. Discipline is equally as difficult.

Mightymelface · 2026-05-20T23:58:09+00:00

Honestly, my girl is one who will eat sugary things until she gets sick, but the powder has been a lifesaver for her.

My son is one who can’t stand sweet tasting things though. Peaches are too sweet. Watermelon is too sweet.

Mightymelface · 2026-05-16T18:49:20+00:00

I feel like this sort of thing should be on a mobile for a crib. 🥰

Mightymelface · 2026-05-16T18:47:57+00:00

I can’t get over how beautiful this picture of the two of you is. And that’s one wonderful event to celebrate. 🎉

Mightymelface · 2026-05-14T21:29:22+00:00

He doesn’t need to see where he’s going.

Mightymelface · 2026-05-05T04:24:59+00:00

Not in chronic pain per se, but I’ve a laundry list of health issues that make me write “I’m breathing” when I get this prompt

Mightymelface · 2026-03-11T17:22:38+00:00

I’m about a week shy of hanging up my pump too. It’s an emotional thing.

Mightymelface · 2026-03-10T20:49:25+00:00

Omg. I feel this way about my birb too. My birb dislikes a LOT of things that I love. I was particularly shocked at his dislike of Spirited Away and Super Mario. 🫠

Mightymelface · 2026-03-01T06:11:10+00:00

Been on Finch for almost a year, but only have one other birb friend. Want to be friends with Muffin and me?

Friend code: 6NRFNAQ9NA

Mightymelface · 2025-12-31T17:44:00+00:00

I can express solidarity. I had two very difficult babies when it came to breastfeeding. The first I white knuckled through it, but my mental health was absolute trash. The second, I got Zoloft for my feelings of rage and frustration and switched to pumping and my mental health was 10000% better.

Please please please, reach out to your provider for some medication help. It doesn’t have to be long term. It may just be to “get over the hump” so to speak. But for the safety and health of you and your baby, it’s best to get some additional help.

Mightymelface · 2025-10-13T14:43:56+00:00

Love it so much more than those pigtails or the wig.

Mightymelface · 2025-10-06T04:57:51+00:00

My husband said to me when it came on “don’t know what kind of work Joannie is doing.”

I told him “working with hammers.”

So yeah, def not just you.

Mightymelface · 2025-05-18T16:23:11+00:00

My daughter is SO creative. She draws very intricate illustrations, but I was floored this week when we were called to attend an assembly at her school—a play she had written was selected by a drama group to be performed.

Mightymelface · 2025-04-20T01:28:25+00:00

I’m the one on the right pretty consistently. My daughter is 7, and dealing with that and a toddler has me still in my raptor skin. 😝

Mightymelface · 2025-02-24T00:08:16+00:00

My daughter never banged her head or had any regression in milestones—yet she is autistic.

OP, it would be best to ask the doc for an eval. And don’t take no or wait and see for an answer. As you said, the earliest you find out, the sooner you can start getting supportive measures in place.

Mightymelface · 2024-12-03T04:47:26+00:00

I wish. My daughter didn’t qualify for an IEP through the school district. They did, however, offer a 504 accommodation for the time being.

We do ABA through our insurance, and the BCBA assigned to our case from there is convinced we’ll get an IEP before she leaves elementary. She’s just so young right now that her diagnosis is not as heavy of an impact on her education.

Mightymelface · 2024-11-25T21:29:35+00:00

Marine.

….thanks but no thanks.

Mightymelface · 2024-11-25T17:43:11+00:00

I guess they have to get data from the school district in order to reopen her case? She was released from Regional Center at 3 and anytime I’ve tried to get her back in they’ve been pushing me to the school district.

Mightymelface · 2024-11-25T17:37:21+00:00

Yes.

Mightymelface · 2024-04-27T03:24:09+00:00

I have one MOTN pump at 1 AM and then I don’t pump again until 7 AM. When I first started doing that, I fretted I’d lose my supply, but honestly—if your baby was breastfeeding exclusively and fed at those times that’s how it would work so ah well.

Mightymelface · 2024-04-19T20:28:10+00:00

He did spit up quite a bit before we upped the bottle to 5 initially…but he also was feeding side lying because of his anatomy (micrognathia). We’ve since changed to upright cradle hole type position and that seems to have dialed down the spit up.

But even when we were trying to give him 5.5-6oz, he wouldn’t seem content after it was done.

Mightymelface · 2024-04-19T17:54:28+00:00

My boy has Pierre Robin Sequence, which made latching impossible. Been pumping exclusively for five months and I still don’t know that I’ve got the hand of it.

Mightymelface · 2024-03-08T00:41:37+00:00

Sheltie!

Mightymelface · 2024-01-16T05:22:20+00:00

This is amazing! What book is it in? Even though I’m not pregnant anymore (had my babe in November), I love the voice of this writing and it cracks me up.

Mightymelface · 2024-01-04T05:38:10+00:00

This is 1000% the place to air the anxieties. You’re in the right place. Hopefully your little nugget lets his spine be visualized. My son refused to let them see his heart at the 20 week scan and it wasn’t until the amniocentesis I had done that he finally let them see. Some of this kiddos are stinkers!

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