Milk and Wheat

I avoid wheat. I get gut rot if I have it. 

I have never put extra sugar on my cereals.

Two spoons in tea and coffee is enough for me.

When I do feel nauseous I solve the problem by taking an antacid tablet.

Milk has a lot of sugar in it but the tongue cannot detect the lactose molecule - and if you put sugar on the cereals too, you may be having a sugar rush.

My experience with breakfast, milk with cereals is that occasionally I feel nauseous afterwards.  This is with standard full cream cows milk.  I'm not really sure what causes it because it doesn't happen every time.

Just my experience but I have had to now be gluten and dairy free because I have intolerances/sensitivities. I believe my autism could well be the cause of these sensitivities as I have many other sensory difficulties.  If I eat gluten or dairy I have stomach problems, headaches, joint pains, lethargy etc and it can make me very grumpy! Therefore, these studies that show that cutting gluten/dairy from diets reduces autistic ''symptoms' such as challenging behaviour could be that the child was experiencing pain from those foods which maybe they couldn't express and now without the foods they feel physically better and therefore less.likely to show anger and frustration through their behaviour.  So not 'curing' autism behaviours but easing physical suffering so they are less likely to occur .   That's just from my experience anyway XX 

I have no problem with wheat and moderate lactose intolerance (which I don’t have reason to believe is linked to my autism).

However, removing dairy from my diet makes me ill (I tried it for vegan month at uni and expect it’s a ‘not managing my nutritional intake’ issue because I have so many other things to focus on to keep myself alive/functioning), so I take lactase tablets if I am eating a good portion of it.

Removing wheat from my diet would probably remove half my food intake. When I was a child with severe texture issues, even more so!

People make a lot of fuss about wheat but I have never seen anything that suggests it is actually harmful unless you have a genuine allergy. Humans have been cultivating grains for so long as a staple food, if it was really as evil as health nuts claim we probably wouldn’t have made it this far lol.

I don't know what any study shows, whether there is a link either that having a diet of milk and wheat makes it more likely that someone is autistic, or that milk and wheat causes someone to be autistic, or that milk and wheat helps people cope with being autistic.

The thing I do know however is that I am autistic and if you removed milk and wheat from my diet it would cause me to rapidly lose weight till I could not support myself.  Milk and wheat comprise a very high percentage of my diet.  I do not like and cannot eat many other foods, I do not like and cannot eat strongly tasting foods and milk and wheat help keep me alive.

Many autistic people have dietary 'problems' in that they will not eat certain foods.  I do not like the texture, taste or look of most types of food, the very appearance of which I find repugnant.

Yes, perhaps food supplements may be necessary.  I may not be getting my nutritional needs but I am 64 and everyone says I look very well on my diet despite its shortcomings.  What is cause and effect I don't know, but I would not think that milk and wheat have caused my autism any more than breathing the air around me has. 

As a famous person said, lies, damn lies and statistics. I would not wish to advocate my diet to anyone else, after all it takes all sorts to make Bertie Bassett.  But I am happy with my diet, it may cause problems with NTs but give me a slice of bread and a glass of milk and I couldn't think of a better thing to eat right now!  And no, I do not exclusively survive on Bread and Milk!