Autism - somewhere in the middle

My daughter is five years old. She is in Kindergarten in a regular education class with an aide to guide her. She is very smart. She can read anything she can sound out and seems to understand what she reads. She can count and add simple numbers. Academically she is at or above her grade level in most skills. She does not do well on timed tests and sometimes does not understand the language we use. She does not have conversational speech. She can label and request almost anything. I am posting this video because not all children are high functioning, many are somewhere in the middle, and even though no one has said this to us, that is where I feel she is....in the middle of the spectrum. Without the early intervention at 2 years old I know we wouldn't have come this far. She is what drives my day on many days. I love her just the way she is, but will do whatever it takes to make her life easier in the longrun.

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