#298 Saturday 25 June

Well hello again! It's 3:00am again! This is getting monotonous .... Kaylia gradually woke and she's gone downstairs. This time she's quiet. It's swimming pool time later this morning so it will wear her out a bit.

I have a theory that the sleep issues stem from the auty problem of her having no ability to engage in imaginative play. At the end of the day Kaylia simply has no acceptable activity other than watching DVD or sleeping! Where an NT child would read or play games, these are meaningless to Kaylia as they involve imagination.




So she goes to sleep (too early in the evening) simply because she sees it as an OK thing to do ... then she wakes when her body has had enough rest (at 3am!) and goes back to her usual stimmy behaviours ... dingle-dangles and DVDs.

It's a theory. Maybe I can sleep now?

Morning: Bad night. Kaylia eventually came back to bed ... but couldn't find "pink piwo". (her pink pillow ... akin to Linus's blanket). After numerous attempts to ignore it, we got up and turned the light on for a concerted search..... found it! .... back to sleep.