OCD and Autism Connected?-diet success?

[Guest guest]

My 16 year old daughter has OCD-at times very severe.

I've done a lot of research over the years and tried many things and I

am seeing a connection to her doing better on a certain diet. It seems

most research related to diet has to do with autistic kids. There were

times her therapist thought she may be in early schizophrenic or have

Aspergers. I know she has sensory integration problems.

It appears to me that Autistic kids often have the whole range of

things-sensory, learning problems, developmental delays and OCD. I'm

staring to think of OCD as high funcioning Autism-in the spectrum in a

sense. I know there are differences but I'm questioning these seemingly

seperate diagnosis when most kids have a few of them.

The reason I think this is interesting is that there are stories of

incredible changes with Autistic children and diet. A book called

the " Gut Psychology Syndrome " speaks to this. I also just read " louder

than words " a book about a boy who came out of severe autism.

I'm curious if anyone else out there is thinking along these lines or

has had success with the SCD diet that has helped autistic children.

-Lori