autism awareness month

chillywilly

It's autism awareness month and my daughter deals with it everyday of her life. So I thought I'd post a pic of my little hero. :):):):):)

schwarcw

Your little hero is so beautiful!

My heart goes out to you and your family. I am very familiar with autism. None is my family but several in my neigborhood. More people should beome aware of this disease and what it's all about.

Here's to your hero!:)

chillywilly

schwarcw wrote: »

Your little hero is so beautiful!

My heart goes out to you and your family. I am very familiar with autism. None is my family but several in my neigborhood. More people should beome aware of this disease and what it's all about.

Here's to your hero!:)

I totally agree most people think that they are misbehaving but they really aren't my daughter is very particular and regimental in the way she does things it all goes in a certain order nothing ever changes. If something is out of place it's very upsetting for her

mrbigbluelight

You've chosen wisely in picking a hero, Chilly; a charming young lady, to be sure.

I thought I heard a figure that 1 out of 150 children today are born with some level of autism.

exalted512

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

You've chosen wisely in picking a hero, Chilly; a charming young lady, to be sure.

I thought I heard a figure that 1 out of 150 children today are born with some level of autism.

That's correct, if you can believe statistics (which I've grown very weary of about any matter).

Nonetheless, there was news a while back that it was able to be reversed in lab mice, so hopefully a cure is coming. No one is still 100% sure of the causes, but 1 in 150...thats an epidemic, and not enough is being done about it.
-Cody

steveinaz

She's beautiful!

candyliquor35m

She's a doll. Jenny McCarthy http://www.thebestlinks.com/images/thumb/b/ba/180px-Jenny_McCarthy,no_top.jpg was recommending a gluten free diet on TV. She said it was working for her child. And of course she mentioned staying away from flu shots and vaccines with thimerosal in them.

brettw22

It's actually a diet that several people have been mentioning as of late for autistic children.

The staying away from flu shots and vaccines isn't something that cl is making up either (surprise surprise)........that's been something that has been documented as directly affecting a child's behavior patterns after all the stuff that gets pumped into kids nowadays.

Jstas

Actually, I've read further in to it and even listened to some things Jenny was saying. It's not so much the thimerosal that is the problem as the sheer number of shots that kids get and at what age they get them at. Kids aren't getting that much more in shots than they were when the previous two generations were getting shots. But many of the shots I got between the ages of 3 and 10 all seem to happen before the age of 3 now and kids are still experiencing a very large amount of development at that age. The minute amounts of mercury are only a small portion of the chemical soup we are pumping in to our kids at a very early age now. There is no reason to turn the kids into a glowing fleshy lump of a meatbag before they are 3 years old in the name of health.

But honestly, that's off topic. chillywilly, you have a beautiful daughter and I hope for nothing but the best for you, her and your entire family.

venomclan

We are expecting and when it comes to vaccines, we are going to get them 1 at a time. We have searched locally and there are very few places that will sell them individually.
Venom

chillywilly

They think there may be a link of autism to other genetic disorders as well. Mackenzie has another genetic disorder called MCAD for short. Her body cannot break down fatty acids so she has to eat every 3 hours to keep her system going and if she gets a cold and can't eat she has to go to the hospital for an IV. She's six years old and weighs 32lbs.

McLoki

Autism often goes along with other issues.... The Gluten-Free diet has worked wonders in some children, but usually when those children have allergies or other issues that make a change in diet perform wonderfully. In other children, it makes no difference.

Much like very few children with Autism have exactly the same symptoms to the same degree - very few treatments work the same to the same degree. I am certainly not discounting trying a change in diet to see if it helps at all, just saying because it worked great for one child does not mean it is a cure for all.

You have a beautiful daughter Chilli. My son(6) and daugther(8) also make me aware of autism much more often than one month a year. If you ever want to chat - I am just a PM away.

Michael