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March 13, 2006

Our son was interested in playing baseball and basketball. We took one step into the gym and he ran out and hid. Too much noise. So I was nervous about baseball. He is actually very good at the skills, but not highly motivated. So I put him in a group at 8 last summer, that really was just working on skills. He did fine as far as the other kids go, but it wasn't a real competitive thing.

He has no interest on playing on a real team this year. He does stay interested in Tae Kwan doe though!

LJ

March 13, 2006

I think checking into the yeast and GFCF intolerance is a good idea. I know for my son it used to hurt so bad to go that he didn't like to. We do probiotics daily and try to keep Casein out of his diet. We did not seem to have issues with gluten, although I do try to limit.

lj

March 20, 2006

,

Have you tried Miralax for your son? My son had bowel/sensory

issues when he was 5 and said he couldn't feel it coming. It was

horrible. After three months on Miralax, he was fine. I wish you

the same success. I also removed dairy/soy from his diet and that

helped his sensory issues tremendously ... he also has many

supplements. He's a different kid now ... good luck!

And, on the sports. My son wants to play basketball in the worst

way and I understand your nervousness ... I'm signing him up and

we'll see how it goes! Give it a try .. you never know!

Kathy

> Has anyone put their asperger child in sports? I am putting my 9

year

> old in baseball. I am kinda nervous on how others will respond to

him.

> My son has problems holding his bowels. I have tried alot of

things.

> Anyone has any suggestions? I think other kids at school are

making fun

> of him because sometimes he smells. I get real sad about this.

>

February 15, 2007

Also I just read about Bill Gates not formally diagnosed but he has mentioned he belives he has a form of it.ssch184188 <SSch184188@...> wrote: Someone mentioned in a post about Spielberg having aspergers. In another post someone said he does not. Spielberg was diagnosed Aspergers Syndrome as an adult. He has spoken about it several times. There are several other stars adn famous people that have admitted they have aspergers as well. If you google it, you can find more.

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February 28, 2008

Well, we're not local, but we're good at listening here. And understanding.

Maybe start a local group? Anyway, welcome .

Francine

In a message dated 2/28/2008 12:19:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, khoover667@... writes:

hello My name is . My son Ethan was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 5. He is now 7. I always knew there was something off with him but it took me awhile to figure it out. I had never heard of Aspergers. He's currently in the 1st grade. He didn't have any issues last year. But this year his social inadequacies has started to surface. His school offers Occupational Therapy. He started receiving those services a few weeks ago. It is doing wonders with his sensory over/under stimulation. I've often felt alone during this journey. Like I'm the only one that is struggling on this journey to help my son become a successful adult and function in a world he has difficulty interacting with. I'm hoping to find support from others who are going through the same journey. The good and bad. I'd love to find a local group of people. Thanks for Listening

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February 28, 2008

Francine - I had never heard of this either until my son was diagnosed at 4. I would highly recommend some speech therapy as well, as speech therapist work on communications skills and social skills, not just speech impediments. My son is now 14 and the speech therapist works with him on social interactions, tone, voice inflection and making phone calls in a socially appropriate way.

You may also be entitled to Recreational PT services, since our kids often have large motor skills as well as the gross motor skills.

Ask questions on the site and remember that 1 of 167 kids are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger's. You are not alone.

Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: sunrose101@...Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:16:22 -0500Subject: Re: aspergers

Well, we're not local, but we're good at listening here. And understanding.

Maybe start a local group? Anyway, welcome .

Francine

In a message dated 2/28/2008 12:19:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, khoover667 writes:

hello My name is . My son Ethan was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 5. He is now 7. I always knew there was something off with him but it took me awhile to figure it out. I had never heard of Aspergers. He's currently in the 1st grade. He didn't have any issues last year. But this year his social inadequacies has started to surface. His school offers Occupational Therapy. He started receiving those services a few weeks ago. It is doing wonders with his sensory over/under stimulation. I've often felt alone during this journey. Like I'm the only one that is struggling on this journey to help my son become a successful adult and function in a world he has difficulty interacting with. I'm hoping to find support from others who are going through the same journey. The good and bad. I'd love to find a local group of people. Thanks for Listening

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February 28, 2008

Hi i am Rhonda and my daughter was also diagnosed at age 5 last september and i am very new to this to but i also alway thought that something was off with her becuse she did everthing so diffrent form my other two girls and i also never had heard of autism or aspergers i tried to get here tested for ahdd or add but no one would ever do it so she has been in prek becuse of speach and social issues since she was three and the teachers are the ones that told me to get her tested for autism so that is what we did shee is very high funtioning but still has her own issues this group has helped me alot so far and i still havee alot to learn my prayers are with you Rhonda in texas Hoover <khoover667@...> wrote: hello My name is . My son Ethan was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 5. He is now 7. I always knew there was something off with him but it took me awhile to figure it out. I had never heard of Aspergers. He's currently in the 1st grade. He didn't have any issues last year. But this year his social inadequacies has started to surface. His school offers Occupational Therapy. He started receiving those services a few weeks ago. It is doing wonders with his sensory over/under stimulation. I've often felt alone during this journey. Like I'm the only one that is struggling on this journey to help my son become a successful

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February 28, 2008

Chiming in from Japan here, to let you know that I have a 10 year

old son, , with aspergers. And, like you, the social deficits

have become more apparent as he aged. At his school, a new school

psychologist came on board last year and I spoke with him about how

concerned I was about the social skills issue. He VOLUNTARILY set

up a social skills group to help practice those skills in a

controlled setting. The group consists of , some of

his " typical " peers, and in a game playing environment, the

psychologist handles the social issues that naturally come up in a

room full of 4th grade boys. Sometimes they do role playing,

sometimes they do conflict resolution, body language, etc. and they

work a lot on the topic of bullying, a huge problem in all grades in

our community. The program has helped a great deal, and it has

also given his peers a perspective on autism, and hopefully, some

empathy. In fact, other teachers are now referring children " not on

the spectrum " , but who do have social deficits, to the group for

help with practising their social skills! Social skills goals

should be added to your child's IEP, if they are not already. I am

so happy that this man has such a positive and helpful attitude! He

could have just said, " it's not my job " and walked away. Dee

>

> Well, we're not local, but we're good at listening here. And

understanding.

>

> Maybe start a local group? Anyway, welcome .

>

> Francine

>

> In a message dated 2/28/2008 12:19:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> khoover667@... writes:

>

> hello

> My name is . My son Ethan was diagnosed with Aspergers

Syndrome at the

> age of 5. He is now 7. I always knew there was something off

with him but

> it took me awhile to figure it out. I had never heard of

Aspergers.

>

> He's currently in the 1st grade. He didn't have any issues last

year. But

> this year his social inadequacies has started to surface. His

school offers

> Occupational Therapy. He started receiving those services a few

weeks ago.

> It is doing wonders with his sensory over/under stimulation.

>

> I've often felt alone during this journey. Like I'm the only one

that is

> struggling on this journey to help my son become a successful

adult and

> function in a world he has difficulty interacting with. I'm

hoping to find support

> from others who are going through the same journey. The good and

bad. I'd

> love to find a local group of people.

>

> Thanks for Listening

>

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March 1, 2008

the CDC revised the figures and it is not 1 in 150 children are on the spectrum.GretaOn Feb 28, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Emery wrote:Francine - I had never heard of this either until my son was diagnosed at 4. I would highly recommend some speech therapy as well, as speech therapist work on communications skills and social skills, not just speech impediments. My son is now 14 and the speech therapist works with him on social interactions, tone, voice inflection and making phone calls in a socially appropriate way. You may also be entitled to Recreational PT services, since our kids often have large motor skills as well as the gross motor skills. Ask questions on the site and remember that 1 of 167 kids are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger's. You are not alone.

March 8, 2008

Thanks for the sadly increased ratio information.

Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: blankra@...Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 07:29:02 -0500Subject: Re: aspergers

the CDC revised the figures and it is not 1 in 150 children are on the spectrum.

Greta

On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Emery wrote:

Francine - I had never heard of this either until my son was diagnosed at 4. I would highly recommend some speech therapy as well, as speech therapist work on communications skills and social skills, not just speech impediments. My son is now 14 and the speech therapist works with him on social interactions, tone, voice inflection and making phone calls in a socially appropriate way. You may also be entitled to Recreational PT services, since our kids often have large motor skills as well as the gross motor skills. Ask questions on the site and remember that 1 of 167 kids are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger's. You are not alone.

March 12, 2008

Greta,

Where did you read that? Do you have a reference for it? I try to keep my website up to date with this info and can't find it anyway.

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Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: blankrabellsouth (DOT) netDate: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 07:29:02 -0500Subject: Re: aspergers

the CDC revised the figures and it is not 1 in 150 children are on the spectrum.

Greta

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August 27, 2009

Have a look here

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/aspergers_syndrome/44586

and

http://stanford.wellsphere.com/autism-autism-spectrum-article/the-sting-of-t

himerosal-in-autism/389155

The Sting of Thimerosal in AutismPosted Oct 01 08 8:02pm The Sting of

Thimerosal in Autism

By Ottar Grundvig

The Epoch Times

Apr 01, 2006

In the summer of 1980, I worked with a former New York City homicide

detective on a construction crew. He had patrolled and survived the

drug-infested streets of the South Bronx for two decades. But I remember him

not for his toughness, but for something I will never forget: he was

hyper-allergic to bees.

A bee sting was more of a death sentence to that ex-policeman than a knife

or gunshot wound. If he didn't get immediate medical care after being stung,

he would suffocate from the hives that closed his throat and blew up his

skin like a strawberry.

I recall that story every day when I see my six-year-old autistic son

struggle to make out a word, fail to use the laptop glidepad with his

fingers, or stay focused for long stretches of time. Most people do not have

life-threatening reactions to the venom in a bee's stinger; so too, most

people do not have the immune reactions such as produced autism in my son.

But the differences between the rare few whose immune systems are

susceptible to bee stings and the children of the autism epidemic are as

night and day.

For instance, people who have the genetic flaw that makes them defenseless

against bees are numbers that grow at a constant rate with the population.

That, however, cannot be said of the vacccine-thimerosal-autism triangle

that began in 1929, when the population of autistic spectrum disorder

children (ASD) was zero. Fourteen years after the introduction of thimerosal

(a mercury-based preservative then under the trade name Merthiolate) by the

pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, Leo Kanner at Hopkins Medical Center

diagnosed the peculiar behavior associated with autism in eleven kids for

the first time. That was 1943. The following year in Switzerland, Hans

Asperger identified another subgroup of high-functioning autistic children

with Asperger's Syndrome.

Coincidence? Hardly. The circumstantial evidence between the timeline of

thimerosal's introduction in vaccines and children having the disorder

fourteen years later, and then further amplified by the parallel rise in the

quantity of vaccines given and the explosion of the autism epidemic makes it

overwhelming. Thimerosal and autism throughout the past century go hand and

hand.

For the thirty years after autism was identified, it grew at the constant

rate of 1-in-10,000 babies born. Although more prevalent than individuals

who were allergic to bee stings, the number of autistic infants only grew if

the population did. So when my generation had one or two vaccines in the

1960's, the rate of children having autism stayed the same. That would

change, however, not from an increase in population, but due to the growing

number of vaccines given to babies, most of which contained thimerosal.

In 1978, the CDC added the triple shot MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) to the

growing baby immunization program. Although MMR as a " live-cell " vaccine

does not contain thimerosal-because the mercury-based preservative as an

antibacterial agent would kill the deactivated virus in the vaccine and thus

render it impotent-it started a frightening, irreversible, and detrimental

trend: Doctors began giving more vaccines, at younger ages, for many

diseases to which babies wouldn't be exposed until later in life (hepatitis

, with the new vaccination protocols all blessed and sanctioned by the

CDC. None of the new baby vaccines was backed by a single study on its

individual safety; nor was a single study done on the safety of the multiple

vaccinations now given.

By the 1980s, my nieces and nephews received 8-9 vaccines when the U.S.

resident population was 236 million people. By 1978, the rate of autism had

increased four times, going from the previous rate of 1-in-10,000 to

1-in-2,500. Over the next ten years, the autism rate would climb again to

1-in-1,000 in 1991, when the DTP triple shot and hepatitis B were added to

the vaccine chart, both of which contained thimerosal.

By the end of 2000, the year when my son was born, the rate mushroomed yet

again to 1-in-250. Not only did the population of ASD children grow, so did

the total number of vaccines given to babies, including my son, from about

ten in 1990 to 22 vaccines or more today. The result of this ill-advised,

force-fed mandate has been catastrophic. The rate of children born with ASD

has increased again to 1-in-166, or 1-in-150 in many parts of California,

Florida, and New Jersey.

In short, the occurrence of autism has increased at a rate of 1,700% over

the past twenty years or more than 6,000% over the past thirty years.

Meanwhile, the U.S. population during the past twenty years has grown from

236 to 300 million people, or at the rate of 21%. Still, the U.S.

government, which has allowed to this very day the continued use of mercury

(in infant flu shots) and thereby sanctioned the poisoning of infant's

bodies, doesn't get the one underlying fact about autism: ASD children have

disastrous reactions to thimerosal.

Once they are contaminated, they cannot excrete heavy metals out of the

system.

Like the bee sting that could topple a Goliath or a hardnosed NYPD

detective, no amount of thimerosal, no matter how minute, would ever be safe

in the bodies of infants predisposed to autism. Trace amounts in susceptible

newborns can damage a nervous system at once vulnerable and beginning to

develop. But unlike bee stings, there is no serum or medication to reverse

the poison. That's because thimerosal is even more insidious-it is a

neurotoxin embedded in the brains, organs and tissues in its heavy metals

form.

So if the rape of a child is against the law, then why isn't poisoning

babies a crime? If an individual chose to poison another person with ricin,

rat poison, anthrax, or even mercury from a thermometer, that individual

would be sent to jail. So why is the use of thimerosal in 2006 not banned as

a toxin in babies?

To answer this question and to see why the immunization mandates were

imposed that caused the recent explosion in autism rates, one needs to

understand the incestuous relationship between the agencies and institutions

that should be protecting our children: the FDA, CDC, and the big

pharmaceutical companies. The key to that relationship is greed.

By shielding big pharmaceutical companies from prosecution, by preserving

the continued use of thimerosal in vaccines, by passing the financial

liability from the perpetrators to the victims and their states, the U.S.

Government, from the CDC and the FDA to Congress and the White House, have

failed an entire generation of children.

The ugly truth about autism-it's here to stay.

I have a friend I have been trying unsuccessfully to convince about

vaccines. Her grandson has something called aspergers. Is there any

information whether vaccines could have caused this? Thank you, Ann

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