Sensory profiles, differing nervous systems and accommodations that let a child be themselves at full volume.
Some children do not refuse because they will not. They refuse because a request — any request, even a welcome one — registers in the body as danger.
Autistic girls are diagnosed later, less often, and usually only after something breaks. Here is what is being overlooked, and why it matters.
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The diagnostic criteria talk about attention and impulsivity. Families almost always come in talking about the size of the feelings — and they are describing the same condition.
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Holding it together for six hours a day costs something. When a capable ADHD child suddenly cannot do things they could do last term, this is usually what you are looking at.
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Mealtimes turn into a contest the moment eating becomes something a child can win or lose. The way out is to stop competing — carefully, and on purpose.
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Pressure is the one ingredient guaranteed to narrow a child's diet. What actually widens it is slower, quieter and far less satisfying to the anxious adult holding the fork.
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The supermarket, the school hall, the label in the collar. For some children the volume of ordinary life is turned up in a way nobody around them can hear — and the behaviour that follows is almost always misread.
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Three states that look similar from across the room and need almost opposite responses from you.
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Glowing reports, no concerns raised, and a child who falls apart the moment the front door closes. Masking is invisible by design — that is what makes it exhausting.
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