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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Autism
« on: April 8, 2019, 02:44 PM »
I wasn't a parent yet when this thread began--my oldest son will turn 10 this year, my younger son will be 7 in a couple months--so this is an interesting read.
My younger son was diagnosed with autism in 2015, just after turning 3. His is a severe form that has impacted our family's daily life in a major way. His older brother has had so much to deal with, I feel so guilty having to make the choices that we do.
I can echo the sentiments about the vaccination link. I thought it was all tinfoil-hat talk until my son had a bad reaction to a vaccine and quickly after began regressing in his development, losing speech and motor skills, etc. Now I have looked into enough to see the government and Big Pharma have gone out of their way to keep pushing their formulations and ignore--no, actually bury-- the evidence of the harm they are causing.
I also read a comment about inflammation, and also wanted to share that we have noticed a marked decline of his symptoms whenever he has a fever coming on, as if the inflammation is allowing a bypass of the affected areas of his brain, though the autism always rebounds back. Our developmental ped has been tracking this.
Last summer we had some success with a dairy-free, casin-free, reduced gluten diet (think paleo or keto) but the gastroenterologist had us put him back on a mainstream diet to do some testing, and we noted little change after the switch back. They are still trying to figure out what all that means.
Happy to talk about your journey and ours anytime you want, Jedi Master, though I'm afraid I would be getting more from you than you from me.
My younger son was diagnosed with autism in 2015, just after turning 3. His is a severe form that has impacted our family's daily life in a major way. His older brother has had so much to deal with, I feel so guilty having to make the choices that we do.
I can echo the sentiments about the vaccination link. I thought it was all tinfoil-hat talk until my son had a bad reaction to a vaccine and quickly after began regressing in his development, losing speech and motor skills, etc. Now I have looked into enough to see the government and Big Pharma have gone out of their way to keep pushing their formulations and ignore--no, actually bury-- the evidence of the harm they are causing.
I also read a comment about inflammation, and also wanted to share that we have noticed a marked decline of his symptoms whenever he has a fever coming on, as if the inflammation is allowing a bypass of the affected areas of his brain, though the autism always rebounds back. Our developmental ped has been tracking this.
Last summer we had some success with a dairy-free, casin-free, reduced gluten diet (think paleo or keto) but the gastroenterologist had us put him back on a mainstream diet to do some testing, and we noted little change after the switch back. They are still trying to figure out what all that means.
Happy to talk about your journey and ours anytime you want, Jedi Master, though I'm afraid I would be getting more from you than you from me.