Was: AP: CHELATION -- NOW: Pioneers

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You know, this thread, and this post, remind me of something very

important. In order for a non-mainstream way of doing things to gain

acceptance, there needs to be a group of devoted individuals willing to

swim upstream, go against the flow, and press ahead even against

purposeful pressure to get them to stop. I was part of another notable

movement that had as many fighting against it and applying undue

pressure to get those pioneers to stop. It was the homeschool movement

in the late 70s early 80s. That was back when CPS or DHS or your

state's version loved to hear of a homeschooling family to harass. It

was when school departments demanded you prove that you were providing

an equivalent instruction program. Newspapers were filled with

educators cautioning against this great danger, and of course the NEA

made many firm statements against it. Superintendents accidentally lost

application to homeschool papers, all sorts of fun stuff. Homeschooling

has gotten so much easier in many areas that I worry that people don't

understand the great right their predecessors earned them with great

effort and risk.

Well, now, it is the fight for our children in another arena - autism

recovery. Whether it is trying to get the mainstream medical

establishment to support our radical choices to use biomed and chelation

or just to get them to admit what is actually causing the damage, this

is what the early 1980s were to homeschooling. All of the brave parents

willing to put the time and effort into doing their own research and

treatments are the brave pioneers of the autism battle. I think we need

to keep that in perspective. Instead of focusing on all the faithful

followers of the former beliefs of autism treatment, we are paving a new

path that helps parents of damaged children see that there is a

different road with better results.

I'm not as eloquent as I wish I could be about it, but I'm hoping you

get the point. This is the stuff the Wild West was made of and most

every major advance in mankind. It is the PIONEER willing to take a

different road and not be swayed by the fearful ones who are trying to

get that pioneer back onto the accepted path.

I'm proud of all the pioneers here and what they have done to help. I'm

expecting there will be a day 20 years from now, when I'm once again

part of some shameful departure from the accepted, and compare it to the

battle to save our kids from autism of the beginning of the 21st

century. I have no doubt that reality and application will triumph.

But, we need to stand firm and not let them scare us back onto their

path. Given the many good results and great stories coming out of

biomed and chelation, more will eventually follow and society will one

day look back and laugh at how backwards the treatments and perceptions

of autism before the turn of the century were. :-)

Keep it up Pioneers!!!

P.

seashell_555 wrote:

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> Anybody remember when Kirby was on Meet the Press with the late

> Tim Russert. I remember Tim Russert stressing the point that many

> parents had inundated NBC with emails about the benefits of chelation

> (he mispronounced it collation Anyway, I believe Tim Russert was

> the only main newscaster to discuss the benefits of chelation. And

> now he's dead. What a shame.

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