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When your child's medical needs conflict with their neurodevelopmental differences

My autistic child has a medical condition that requires frequent procedures but the sensory overload sends them into meltdowns and I feel like I am torturing them to keep them healthy.

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Love requires us to cause pain to prevent greater suffering, but the math of necessary harm never feels acceptable.

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