There’s thing a called “opportunity costs”. When ...

There’s thing a called “opportunity costs”. When we choose to invest our time and resources on someone or something it detracts us from using our time elsewhere. I wouldn’t consider it a waste of time to write about my own ASD daughter but she’s only three so I can’t really do it myself juggling a job and her two-year old brother. I’m slow on the keyboard and end up with proofreading errors so it’s a pain in the butt to post consistently. If you weren't writing, would be doing something that much more productive? My daughter had her first day in a pre-school intervention class and was clueless as to where she was going on her first bus ride to a new school. She’s not verbal enough to say anything about the experience. She may as well been abducted on a UFO and back to Earth without any change in her demeanor. At least she didn’t seem traumatized left in the company of strangers for the first extended time. Suzanne, you’re posting for us because a lot of us just can’t write well or long enough. You tell us what the future is or might be for kids younger than Janey. There’s a lot posted on the Internet including stuff on autism but I couldn’t find many “case studies” that reminded me of my kid none as prolific as you. I’ve been reading all your posts starting in 2013 then going back to 2007 forwards. I converted your posts to Word and highlight the parts that hit home or are unusual to me so far. It's obsessive but I'm trying to see if there are any longitudinal patterns in your kid's behavior that can track with with my kid. I read your "don't compare" advice but I do the compare and contrast standard college question to a lot of things to get some insight. I don’t think Janey would get mad at you for writing about her for her. If she was that functional in the future she’d have so many things she could do or wanted to say that it would be pointless complaining about a past she had little control over.