No, it's disagreement and acknowledging her own admissions of such issues. Gaslighting is when you touch on things that are the oppositve of what the person says to the point where they're trying to make you think an unbelievable thing is believeable.. Everything is too skewed on everyone else. She's pretty clearly hyperfocusing and exaggerating in an unnatural way. I'm entitled to MY opinion.

THIS:

"Before I knew it, parents and students were staring in horror as if my boy were one of the outlandish humans on display at a freak show such as the bearded lady or the siamese twins."

Is bullhockey. If you watch kids in real life, they do and say crazy things, they run around, MANY of them stim or act out. It's a little off-kilter but HARDLY the level of exaggeration here. Grow up, people take the world around them in stride. Unless the kid is knocking things over, or people, or worse and no one can function, they live their OWN life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know a kid or two who had meltdowns. I don't know anyone who hasn't had to take a crying child out of a restaurant or play. It happens. She's talking about a normal event as if it's a catastrophic one, it isn't, not even close.