Aspergers/Autism/Sensory Integration Chatter #4

[Yeddi]

Sorry for the confusion... I don't think you cure ASD either. Was trying to be sarcastic as I'm really annoyed my dad was trying to big note himself they cured my autisim with early ed. WTF? I wasn't austistic! I think I had sensory prosessing which may have been helped though. I'm annoyed he thinks my son can be "cured" if I'm as good a parent as he was. Yeah right. Whatever. Really dislike my father, sorry. I want to start the diet/heavy metal detox stuff soon. Not sure how that works when E only eats 3 foods though.

Epsom salt baths are one of the best ways to start with toxic load, not just metals, but even if they are sensitive to natural chemicals in their food, it will help draw them out through the skin. If E only eats three foods, it might be worth starting on the GAPS diet rather than an elimination diet (there's not much more you could eliminate really). We looked at elimination diets, but the way I saw it was that elimination diets remove the things that are causing issues, where the GAPS diet stops them from being issues in the first place ITMS. The GAPS diet says that autism can be "cured" but what I think it means by that is that the improvements that are seen are normally so great that the children get taken off the spectrum, they still have to deal with the issues and be careful of yeast overgrowth etc., but there are a lot less of dx criteria so they don't need the label anymore.

[meow]

Oh thank you! The GAPS diet sounds like just what I'm looking foor. Was hoping for some direction from a natrupath once settled so I hadn't researched yet. I'll look it up. I had heard clay baths were good for detoxing mercury so good to hear epsom salts are good. I'll get some and start those. E is pretty high functioning so I hope with working out these triggers and influences we can take away most of his spectrum traits. I'd most like him to enter our world and engage a little more. We get glimmers so I know it's there and he wants to. Just to help unlock him. We start speech tomorrow. Scored a male therapist which is awesome as E actually tries to engage dads in playgrounds etc and I think a male will be able to interest him more.