What is it with people?????? is she right?

It doesn't help when mothers like this one on youtube present their individual cases as proof of what they are saying.

Her history is that her child developed a problem that looks like autism. After the child had it's MMR vaccine, after it was weaned onto solids etc, after it grew up and developed somewhat etc etc she observed the child's behaviour deteriorate. The child was given a label of autism. There is no definitive physical or chemical test for autism so there won't have been a categorical diagnosis.

I think that she has done two things.

1) She has been very focused on her child and has done everything she can to help the child with whatever problems it had. She may well have created a very autism friendly environment for the child.

2) She has cleaned up the child's diet by removing a lot of chemical additives. The diet will probably be a Feinman type diet which has certain "aggravating" foods removed.There may well be something in the link between autism and diet as there are many reports of gastro-intestinal issues amongst ASD sufferers.

The child's behaviour has improved following her intervention or because it progressed from the terrible twos or whatever.

She does not appear to have done any harm to her child.

If you take anything away from this you might copy what she did and your child might have fewer behavioural issues. It is just possible that her approach might benefit someone who genuinely has autism. It is equally possible that she is totally misguided and that her child never had autism.

It certainly is true that an autistic child's behaviour can be positively influenced by looking carefully at the child's physical and social environment and that the more understanding you have of the sufferers point of view the better.

It doesn't help when mothers like this one on youtube present their individual cases as proof of what they are saying.

Her history is that her child developed a problem that looks like autism. After the child had it's MMR vaccine, after it was weaned onto solids etc, after it grew up and developed somewhat etc etc she observed the child's behaviour deteriorate. The child was given a label of autism. There is no definitive physical or chemical test for autism so there won't have been a categorical diagnosis.

I think that she has done two things.

1) She has been very focused on her child and has done everything she can to help the child with whatever problems it had. She may well have created a very autism friendly environment for the child.

2) She has cleaned up the child's diet by removing a lot of chemical additives. The diet will probably be a Feinman type diet which has certain "aggravating" foods removed.There may well be something in the link between autism and diet as there are many reports of gastro-intestinal issues amongst ASD sufferers.

The child's behaviour has improved following her intervention or because it progressed from the terrible twos or whatever.

She does not appear to have done any harm to her child.

If you take anything away from this you might copy what she did and your child might have fewer behavioural issues. It is just possible that her approach might benefit someone who genuinely has autism. It is equally possible that she is totally misguided and that her child never had autism.

It certainly is true that an autistic child's behaviour can be positively influenced by looking carefully at the child's physical and social environment and that the more understanding you have of the sufferers point of view the better.