Both of these LWs are determined to resist the idea that their kid has their very own set of sensory experiences, which are not LW's, and that a kid who habitually does something (that their parent finds inconvenient) is VASTLY more likely to be reacting to their own actual lived experience than plotting against their parent's supposed authority.

Every once in a while I marvel that certain parties manage to delude themselves into thinking that it's autistics who lack "theory of mind".