My child’s needs are urgent and time-sensitive. Spending hours compiling reports and documentation takes time away from direct care and therapy, slowing their progress. We already fight battles with insurance, medical providers, and schools. Adding a documentation burden makes this process feel punitive when it should be supportive. As a parent who intimately understands my child's condition, I am in the best position to provide care. Requiring pages of documentation makes it seem like our lived experience is not valued. The time we spent gathering documentation last year meant we had to forgo therapy sessions for my son due to overwhelming stress. Reintroducing this process will create the same harmful consequences. This system fails to consider the complexities of daily care. What documentation could fully capture the nuance of managing a non-verbal child with autism? It’s a never-ending struggle.