I started on this journey and my son is almost 10 and it started off with a lot of medical intervention. We went through a lot of therapies that were not neurodiversity affirming and I think back to that experience and you know even something like occupational therapy which is a wonderful resource but thinking back to what he experienced as a toddler with like exposure therapy and we now know that that is not a safe practice. It doesn't get them used to it, it just makes them mask their pain. There was a lot of learning and I think that that's what's hard for a newly diagnosed autistic child.