Fwd: Does everyone here still believe its Autism? I DO!

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In a message dated 06/04/2009 20:14:33 GMT Daylight Time, Goldsmull writes:

I think that those parents who had neurotypical children for the first

months to few years of their life and watched them regressing really want

answers to what is currently accepted as an epidemic. A number of children

present with complex immune dysfunction and brain inflammation which is

medical in origin and which requires urgent medical treatment alongside any

early

intervention programmes!

What is concerning and I think the core reason why people question the

appropriateness of using the A word (and this does not mean that they are in

denial) is the fact that Autism is considered to be a pervasive

developmental disorder with no known established cause or cure and diagnosed by

observation of behaviours only and from within the psychiatric arena. Rarely is

there an attempt to establish and treat underlying primary physical problems

and the longer it takes to respond to such serious issues such as immune

dysfunction, brain inflammation then the more damage that will result in a

developing brain and logically more remediation will be required in an

attempt to undo the damage that could have been avoided. I think in this sense

that Dr Goldberg has it right by diagnosing Neuroimmune Dysfunction in

other words the primary source for the manifestation of the behaviours

diagnosed as Autism! This condition belongs in the medical arena not in the

psychiatric arena! We need to better understand the underlying mechanisms for

such immune and brain dysfunction that is now at epidemic proportions and

behavioural and other treatments should be second place to the primary medical

treatment!

In a message dated 05/04/2009 22:25:02 GMT Daylight Time, Mexfol@...

writes:

Ok:

Well, I am the sternest voice of opposition to parents who chose denial

instead of pro-active, hands-on intervention for their kids.

Yes you are in denial...flat simply...accept that you are in denial so you

can stop looking for what you wish to hear.

This condition is also about you. If your child was diagnosed with a mild

form of autism then he hast it...and your entire family too. Denying the

opportunity of providing cerebral and behavioural re-training to your

child in

unjustifiable. ...

You are the communicating medium of your child, open all your senses so

you

can absorb the great help you can get from professionals and the broad

supporting community. Yes, including brilliant Dr. Golberg.

What right do I have to talk to you like this?...Well for starters I am

50,

the father of a set of identical twin boys who were not diagnosed with

mild

autism until the end of their THIRD GRADEI!

They were born in 1990. No autism spectrum was devised yet.

They are 19 now and headed to their freshman year in college...

So no glorified " Early Intervention " Which by the way is the ONLY way to

properly retrain a child diagnosed within the autism spectrum

Everyone was baffled because though not retarded and not completely

dysfunctional, my children exhibited EXACTLY the same behavior yours,

except multiply

all you go through X 2...

They developed normally until 1 and a half years, then they started

replacing vocabulary, meaning they did not retain the previous learned

words, but

replaced them with a new set.

We the parents, pre-school teachers, our extended family, school and

private

psychologists were all at odds.

Yes, i cried when I read Dr. Goldberg's site, I cried when I went to see a

sleep disorder specialist, and cried every time I heard exactly what I

wanted

to hear. But nothing new or different happened with my children.

They got older and their brain matured little by little.

They exhibited no fear to anything or truly spoke understandably, or

looked

into our eyes until they became 9. Tantrums they never had...and will

never

do. I am one of those annoyingly joking fathers. So the constant

stimulatory

bombarding to get them from the AUTO mood helped them socially. While my

wife

dedicated her entire time and energy to put them in all kinds of

activities:

swimming, dancing, music, art, gymnastics and every other imaginable sport

or

art form.

We became entirely absorbed in stimulating all of their senses, because we

noticed a difference in behavior and attention to their surroundings when

they

became challenged..became challenged..<WBR>.We maintained them both always

bu

things...despite the fact that we have both always worked and have

multiple

community involvement activities.

We are not an example, but our kids would have probably been committed to

an

institution by now if we did not involved ourselves the way we did.

Yes, we all practice denial in many forms, and actively look for benign

answers in our desperation.answers in our desperation.<WBR>..My kid's

diagnosis c

they have been diagnosed on time like yours I assure you we would have

steadily followed all instructions to a T, and the slight stuttering and

word

slurring they exhibit today would have been successfully treated.

Do not discard getting the indicated therapies now, if truly your child

has

been misdiagnosed, the occupational, behavioral and speech therapy would

not

harm him either. But if the diagnose is correct, then these therapies will

give you fantastic effects and retrain your child's brain to operate as a

that

of a neuro-typical child

Hoping things get better soon

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