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Diet and Autism (formerly the 'My Diet Hell' thread)

Steven

I attended an ASD advice session a couple of weeks ago and, amongst other questions, I was asked if I obsessed over anything (it was put more gently than this, of course). I'm often a bit slow to realise obvious things, so I couldn't come up with an instructive answer.

Hours later, it dawned on me that I'm needlessly over-concerned with losing weight. I am 5-foot-9 and exactly 11-stone which, as far as I'm aware, isn't over-weight anyway; so why the obsession? It perhaps doesn't help that I'm truly terrible at everything from basic mathematics to understanding weighing-scales in an ordinary fashion (I frequently think of '11-stone' as '11 o'clock', and can't get out of the rut of thinking that mistaken way). Obviously, this obsession features the usual calorie-counting routines and fretting about the *enormous* calorific legacy of adding a single sweetener to a cup of coffee. All this is difficult to explain because, like most people, I defiantly tell myself that I don't care what others think of me or my appearance...while secretly worrying about what others think of me or my appearance...and vice versa.

Anybody else have this or similar problems?

Parents

  • Is this claim irresponsible? A woman claims that her son's autism was cured by a change of diet; as far as I'm aware, there *is* no cure...

    www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Autism-diet-cured-son.html

  • in reply to Steven

    There is so much wrong with this article I don't even know where to start.  So much negativity and misinformation.  But then it is the Daily Mail, so that's not surprising. 

    They also make a bunch of other claims, like another sign of autism is dark circles under the eyes.  ???  I've heard we often have sleep issues, but they attribute this to diet as well.  

    My theory is that he may have been withdrawn because of digestion issues that he couldn't communicate, and the diet helped reduce pain.  And also the changed attitude of his mother who now makes an effort to support his development instead of bemoaning his existence. 

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  • in reply to Steven

    There is so much wrong with this article I don't even know where to start.  So much negativity and misinformation.  But then it is the Daily Mail, so that's not surprising. 

    They also make a bunch of other claims, like another sign of autism is dark circles under the eyes.  ???  I've heard we often have sleep issues, but they attribute this to diet as well.  

    My theory is that he may have been withdrawn because of digestion issues that he couldn't communicate, and the diet helped reduce pain.  And also the changed attitude of his mother who now makes an effort to support his development instead of bemoaning his existence. 

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