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Emma Young

Walk for Autism 2026

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My Activity Tracking

My tracker shows my steps for the 8 days of the challenge from 26th March to 2nd April. My goal progression shows all my steps including any I have done outside of the challenge days.

My Target: 80000 Steps

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Goal Progression

Steps walked so far:

13,730

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My Target:

80,000

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18% Complete

I'm walking 10,000 steps a day for Autism Initiatives

This is for my child, my friends child/children and for all autistic people. 
Walk for Autism is a fundraising challenge run by Autism Initiatives Group. Autism Initiatives Group is working towards a world where every autistic person has the support they need to thrive, every opportunity to fulfil their potential and a supportive, inclusive community to live in.

I'll be walking 10,000 steps a day from 26th March to 2nd April to raise money for this fantastic charity. Please sponsor me.

Any donation big or small is greatly appreciated 😊

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£125

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Saturday 7th Feb
Walk For Autism

Emily

Monday 2nd Feb
We accept Emily needs space to calm her mind after days at school, sensory triggers this can be uniform, others eating habits, loud children and loud instruments, navigating friendship ups and downs, rejections, navigating teacher expectations, rules and demands.
Emily at home needs structure and routine, any changes can impact her massively. 
Sleep isnt a necessity to her. She struggles to switch off so settling takes hours. Never a full night's sleep, broken or few hours. 
Dietary needs are basically no meat, and plain beige foods so trying to provide a healthy no meat meal that's catered to her mood of the day is challenging. Tastes change, one food shes fixated on for days/weeks becomes a no go at the click of a finger. One thing I love though is that this kid loves fruit. So silver linings. 
Emily struggles with being asked to do something which is the PDA profile of autism, so has to be worded in a way that its a team effort. The demands of something can send her into a spiral. One task seems like 20 in her head. 
Emily's loves nothing more than cuddles with Ronnie (a gorgeous dog we dogsit), or a trip to StarBs for her fav cake pop and cream frappe.
In her head she loves a trip to the Trafford centre and clothes shopping, in reality this is noise and peopley and crowds and textures and too much choice and too much going on. But still insists on a shopping trip ha.  
Shes into her make up, skincare, fashion, shes incredibly artistic, drawing real life images which are great for her age, shes creative, shes messy, shes a kid just like most in ways, its just the world in her head is too much for her brain to make sense of. When sensory overload or unable to make sense of things occur this shows in manic episodes, tapping, Banging, fidgeting, speaking a million words at once, explosions of emotions shouting, screaming and can be verbally abusive sometimes. Its hard to see her like this and sometimes my emotions get the better of me and we end up a shouting mess which doesnt help, but we then need time to regulate and maybe approach subjects later on. Sometimes we never do just because finding the right words is hard to explain things in a way emily will respond better too. 
Life's hard and life's going to throw new challenges at Emily and me along the way. Whichever way we get through it we will get through it.

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Monday 2nd Feb
My name is Emma and my ASD child is Emily.
It was a long 2 year battle with school to make the appropriate referrals on my request, then a further year long wait for diagnosis. We were only accepted by the paediatrician on my sole evidence as school failed to see issues! Emily masked exceptionally well in school and exploded at home. School was and is a trigger for her but she learnt to manage the school environment and copy behaviours, be the child that caused no bother to the point where she wouldn't and still doesnt ask for help. 
School saw this as behavioural problems at home and and even recommended "bonding therapies" for emily and me. 
Emily's paediatrician saw through all this and saw emilys struggles with school, masking, sensory issues, food issues, sleep issues and astronomical meltdowns as something completely different to "behavioural problems". 
If you're reading this please please understand you know your child better than anyone, dont allow school to dismiss you, push for the referral to paediatrics. Not camhs! We were rejected twice one from our GPs referral and the one the SENCO did in school to pacify me! 
More money needs to be pumped into these services and charities to give support to parents and education to all teachers and SENCOs and accepting autistic children on a more broad spectrum not the stereo typical boy traits which have been mentioned by the school on a few occasions in the early days of going to school. 

Thank you to my donors

£21.84

Sue & Chris Moore

£21.36

Emma Young

I sponsor myself, can you sponsor me too please?

£11.33

Laura Broomhead

Good luck pal xxx

£6.11

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