According to this research, heavy TV indulgence before the age of three is associated with an increase in autism. The paper suggests that TV could be a trigger for those with a genetic predisposition toward the condition. My guess would be that this is a chicken and the egg equation – do the kids watch a lot of TV because they are autistic, or does watching the TV trigger the autism.  My guess would be the former.

Ozma has been suggesting that I should post about my experiences to being on the GFCF diet for a while. I have been GFCF for just over two years, and I can honestly say that it has been one of the best decisions of my entire life (it falls just after deciding to ask Ozma to marry me!) About two or three years after Dorothy started the diet, Ozma started pointing out the physiological symptoms that were gone in her

I think this is such a cool idea! Anyone who has dragged a bewildered autistic child through the security at an airport will appreciate the beauty of this idea. If you are planning a roadtrip with the holidays approaching, I have some ideas for GFCF snacks/meals on the run that you might be interested in here.

This article grabbed me because autistic persons have much the same problem. I know many people who have “autistic” traits, but they are walking around, living their regular lives and don’t need pharmaceuticals. I am also not a fan of labeling because it gets in the way of treatment. I generally refer to my daughters condition as autism. She is specifically diagnosed with Asperger’s. I have found though, that doctors/teachers tend to minimize the autistic aspects of her illness, and

This kind of thing makes me crazy. The drug company even admits that it does nothing to treat the disease, and yet they are marketing this thing to treat autism. When our daughter was first diagnosed with Asperger’s we dilligently did everything the neurologist told us to do. She suggested putting her on paxil. It seemed to take the edge off her, but it really only masked her symptoms. It didn’t do anything for her pain, her stomach, or her

It looks like the medical community may admit that a vaccine caused neurological problems. This is interesting to me because the people receiving the shots were teens trying to ward off meningitis. The big deal here is that these people could report their reactions- babies can’t- and for some reasons doctors completely discount the observations of a child’s parents. All of my children had horrible reactions to their shots. One of my children has autism. One of them would cry

News of a massive new study shows some initiative to find root causes for autism, but does it come too late? Now that thimersol has been removed from most vaccines, will it give a distorted picture? My main frustration is that they are only now discussing a study which will take 10 years to complete, in the mean time how many children will suffer from autism? I am much more interested in the people who have practical answers to symptoms