The ups and downs of ASD

We have been seeing some great improvements with Georgia lately. At the same time however, we have seen some other habits come back or get worse. Her language is really coming along and she is taking instruction much better. Unfortunately she has recently become more solitary preferring to play in her room by herself instead of hang out with her dad or I. In addition she has gotten better at ignoring us when we are talking to her and has inappropriate emotional reactions like she used too in the beginning. She has started laughing at us when scolded, which is very frustrating. Not sure why this is happening again, but I guess it could be worse. She could be tantruming or stimming all day long instead.

Today was a good day though. She played pizza party with me and some of her toys. It was nice that she didn't shove me out of the room and shut the door (common occurrence around here lately). Afterward we played some number and alphabet matching games which she did very well on and seemed to actually be interested in (which is half the battle) I will try and get some video soon.

We had an incident at school where they were feeding her a GF food that they thought was ok, but the website says it may contain traces of milk. I realize this isn't the end of the world and that they were trying to help, but I wish they had run it past us before feeding it to her. Her system is so fragile and I need to be able to trust that she is sticking to her diet at school too.

I think that one of the most frustrating things about treating autism is that you are never 100% sure what causes a setback or a breakthrough. You can be pretty sure, but there are so many variables with our kids.
For instance: Is her poop weird this week because she's fighting a bug, or is it the possible milk traces in the food they gave her at school, or is it bacteria flaring in her gut because we have killed off most of the yeast? And are any of the above causing her behavior problems or is it that she's been out of vitamin A for a couple days while we wait for it to come in the mail?
Who knows.....

Anyway, our life is full of ups and downs for Georgia. All we can do is go with the flow and deal with things as the come.