Living With a Child With Autism

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After researching autism for more than three years I continue to be amazed at the lack of concern regarding the nutritional adequacy of the diets of the affected children. My research of more than a thousand individuals has shown nutritional deficiencies is the basic cause and when corrected, the symptoms generally disappear. This has included several non-verbal children as well.

Harold Rongey, Ph.D. of CA 7:00PM May 29, 2011

Autism is a journey. I know for a lot of people, including myself, the first step on the Autism journey is the sense of loss. Loss for the child that could have been. Once past that stage, which can involve a lot of crying, and welling fears of treading on uncertain ground, there comes the searching - searching for answers. Searching usually entails a tidal wave of information to process and to sort through (insert more tears here.) More rewarding is the point of acceptance that there is no easy fix and looking at your child as the wonderful person who they are who is trapped inside a body that isn't functionally the way the rest of ours do. It is taxing on the family, not only emotionally, but physically. Trying many types of therapies is par for the course, and some work and some don't seem to do all that much. I do have to say, that having our 10 year old autistic son in our family is a blessing (though still very demanding and stressful at times). You learn to celebrate every achievement. You celebrate the today's that you have. They really are wonderful.

raisingallergykids of VA 6:46PM May 27, 2011