daughter was easy to raise in many ways and the most difficult child in many ways. She is generally mild mannered, so that is how she was easier than the others and easier many autistic kids.

We have had great support from family, neighbors, church, schools, specialists, support groups, etc. One Utah County support group liked to use our daughter as an example of what is possible for life on the spectrum. She held a job as a CNA at a care center for many years. She graduated high school. She went to charter schools for junior and high school, which was great, because the class sizes were small and the teachers able to give her extra time and attention. School was a part of raising her that was more difficult. She for a while said she wouldn't take any more math classes, so she wouldn't graduate, so she wanted to quit school. Her school had an applied math class that she could tolerate and then she did packets and online high school math with me being the primary math teacher.

Discipline and coaching with that daughter has always been a struggle. Time-out, removing privileges, taking away things, talking to her and discussing with her seldom to never had any impact. She just made up her mind and dealt with whatever came. Almost zero potential to convince her. The best path was generally to just talk about our thoughts on things without making any attempt to convince her or change her mind, just hope she would adopt aspects of what we talked about, which she did at times, as long as we made zero effort to convince her.

She has been married for several years. I think the marriage is going fairly well. She had a baby in January and is an amazing, loving, excited mother. It is great to watch her with our granddaughter.

She spends much of her time on Youtube, which I think is a key contributor to her abandoning religion. Hopefully religion will again be in her future.

A funny? aspect of our daughter... growing up her stated desired profession was always president of the US, because she could force people to act as she felt was appropriate (which often did not necessarily coincide with what you or I would think appropriate - generally close, but sometimes not so close). Her feeling that agency is not a thing may have been part of why discipline didn't work with her. Her agreeing with Satan's plan may be a part of why she has abandoned religion...