Re: OT: Liz and Amish...Aspergers Autism

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This email is a little silly to me. I am not sure what they mean about amish

being more healthy but that is totally wrong. My father was raised amish in

Lancaster PA and I am very close to my Amish relatives. I will say this much

being without electric and vehicles and also wearing different clothes is the

only difference between us and them. They eat the same foods go to Phsyc. for

problems as ADHD and Autism. I just wanted everyone to know that food hardly

ever cures what is wrong with our children. Amish are a very quiet people to

the outside world and if you are related to these people you are aware that

they are just like us and do have alot of problems with children in their

schools. My Cousin teaches in a one room schoolhouse and we were talking the

other day about this and she has said all the other Amish Schools teachers that

she talks with have at least one or two children with problems such as Aspergers

or Autism. This problem is all around even if your Amish.

LJL <laura6307@...> wrote: The family we buy from homeschool their kids.

It is quite

incredible. These kids are doing great. I don't know how they do

it, but their schooling is incorporated into their life and their

business, which is herdshare (raw milk), grassfed meats, pastured

eggs, organic, etc. All the kids, down to the three year old, have

jobs. The kids are so well-mannered, and they look so very healthy,

even with the dirty feet - they run around with no shoes on.

The bacteria count on their raw milk is lower than that of a store

bought pasteurized product (this has a lot to do with the fact their

machines are of course clean, but it goes from cow to bottle to

consumer quickly, so milk does not increase in bacteria count via

shipping process).

>

> ,

> The Amish schoolmaster was a friend of ours, and invited my cousin

and

> me to school with him one day. (We were in about eighth grade.) I

> thought, " Huh. This'll be a piece of cake! " because I went to one

of

> the best schools in suburban Cleveland. HAHAHAHA! There were so

many

> things they could do that I couldn't! How many bushels of grain can

you

> get from a field that you planted with so much seed? Ummm... I

hadn't a

> clue. How many hectares... Um, what's a hectare? Sure put me in MY

> place. They also had spelling bees, which our schools had pretty

much

> given up on by then, and still taught geography. All that in one

> little room heated by a woodstove.

>

> Liz

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