i'm so sorry. as the words stopped, the hitting started. >> age 4 to age 6 was really hard. we would take turns on who was going to hold and lay with her and make sure she is not going to punch her face and break her nose and eye sockets. >> watch what you are doing. that's right. >> and the developmental pediatricians say it's autism. >> that was around age 4? >> mm-hmm. >> what was that like to hear? >> terrifying. i knew nothing about it. >> but christie would quickly learn there is no cure. there are no definitive treatments, especially for someone who had such severe autism as kara. completely non-verbal. one night she repeatedly hit herself for 12 hours non-stop. >> at this a point it was, like, we need to go a different direction, you know. so that's when the antipsychotics, that's when they started, right after this. >> kara started taking a