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Robyn Ingram

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: 20000 Steps

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Goal Progression

Steps walked so far:

87,469

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My Target:

20,000

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100% Complete

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

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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Raised

£210 + £11.32 GiftAid

My goal

£150

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My updates

Aus-some Ingrams

Sunday 1st Mar
Being parent of a child with autism means living in two worlds at once.

In one world, you see your daughter — her laugh, her interests, the way she experiences things deeply and uniquely. You see her strengths, her intelligence, her heart. You know how hard she tries every single day to do things that come effortlessly to others.

In the other world, you see everything that most people don’t.

Autism, clinically known as Autism spectrum disorder, isn’t something you can always see from the outside. And that invisibility is part of what makes it so hard. Strangers see a child who “looks fine.” They don’t see the sensory overload from bright lights, loud rooms, or scratchy clothing. They don’t see how exhausting it is to decode facial expressions, body language, or shifting social rules. They don’t see the mental preparation it takes just to walk into a shop, weather you've been there 50 times before or not. 

They may see a meltdown.
You see overwhelm.
You see fear.
You see a nervous system pushed past its limit.

They may see “rude.”
You see a child who is struggling to communicate.

They may see “too sensitive.”
You see a child feeling everything at full volume.

Being her parent means becoming her interpreter, her advocate, her safe place. It means planning ahead for situations others walk into casually. It means researching therapies, understanding individualized education plans, navigating systems that weren’t built with her in mind. It means celebrating victories that others might overlook — making the morning without a nap, saying a new word, finishing her snack, surviving a birthday party.

It also means carrying a quiet ache: knowing the world often misunderstands her.

The world is largely built for neurotypical brains — fast-paced, loud, socially complex. Our daughter moves through that world with courage every day. What may look like a simple school day can require extraordinary effort: managing sensory input, tracking instructions, reading social cues, staying regulated, masking differences to fit in.

And masking has a cost. Many autistic children hold it together in public, only to release all the tension at home — the one place they feel safe enough to unravel. That unraveling isn’t misbehavior. It’s relief.

To parent a child with autism is to learn a new language — her language. It’s noticing patterns others miss. It’s understanding that behavior is communication. It’s fighting for accommodations while teaching her that she is not broken.

It’s fierce love mixed with fierce advocacy.

It’s exhaustion some days.
It’s pride every day! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

And perhaps most of all, it’s knowing that our daughter is not defined by her challenges — even though the world often focuses on them. She is navigating a world that wasn’t designed with her brain in mind, and she does it with more strength than most people will ever realize. 

We are proud parents of one amazing little lady! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Thank you to my donors

£32.23

Nan

Gd luck you guys Ly all

£32.23

Mike & Ange

Good luck, lots of love Mike, Ange & girls xxx

£21.84

Robyn & Stuart Ingram

£21.84

Nanny Diz

Good luck sweetheart

£16.56

Zara Overton

£16.56

Rande

£11.33

Faye Martin

Best of luck to you both! What a wonderful cause to raise money for, I will cheer you on every step ❤️

£11.33

Lauren Newton

Good luck guys ❤️ youre amazing 👏 xxx

£11.33

Lisa M

Don’t know how u fit it all in! Good luck xxx

£11.33

Sandra Mccann

Well done Robyn!! Xx

£11.33

Laura Crew

£6.11

Mia

Your amazing ⭐️👏❤️

£5.99

Kym