Not sure who watched Oprah with Jenny Mccarty and Holly Robinson Peete, but she talked about the GFCF diet for children with Autism........ I never thought that Noah or Jesse had any allergy issues. Noah does not, but Jesse, well.......a few of us moms started comparing and ...
This week I discovered that Jesse has a condition called encopresis. It totally threw me off cause he would go in the potty, just not alot! Of course I had to call my doctor and let him know lol I just love that! Anyway, It is a pretty gross condition so just trust me, I wont go into details lol. Lets just say he needed to be cleaned out with heavy duty methods lol....
He got off the toilet, we made a big deal out of it, etc...... He walked into the living room, I gave him some juice and he walked over to the window ( his favorite stim window) and sat there for 15 minutes and drank his juice and looked out the window....not one stim!!!! I noticed it within 5 minutes, sat down on the chair and just watched in utter disbelief. Jesse has been crazy stim dude for a while! So this was blowing my mind! I texted Dave and told him....Dave immediately called me. I was planning on taking them to the playground so I was getting everything together..... still no stimming. He was going up to grace trying to get her to play with him, she was watching sponzebob. He was literally walking around the living room looking at the pictures on the walls like he never noticed them before, and he looked at me and commented on the one with him in it........Went to the playground....... NO stimming at the playground, I may have saw one small stim for a second. I fully expected to just see it go down alittle, but it was so drastic! Came home, he asked for cheese curls........I was like ok, lets see what happens......he had 5, and quess what, he started to stimm alittle....just alittle but I was like whoa, this is blowing my mind. I had him drink his juice laced with enzymes lol the stimming stopped. He ate Penne with Sauce and broccili for dinner....He actually ate most of it! We went to church. Picked him up from church and they were all eating pretzels, but he was not stimming. His teacher said he stimmed a few times, but totally said he did not stim like usual...and I told him that I was trying something new so I was glad to hear it.
Came home, he wanted some fruit snacks. He was slightly stimmy, not a crazy stim but slightly..... he finished drinking his enzyme juice and Dave and I literally sat in the dining room as we watching him and Grace play in the living room....... shaking our heads in disbelief. I did his music program with him, and afterwards he was talking to Dave and walking around looking at the pictures on the walls again......
So well...I keep thinking it is a dream that this major puzzle piece is answered! So all this stuff I was doing could not work because his was impacted with toxins! And well, I do think junk food plays a role in the stimming now...a kid who was not stimming and has a few cheese curls and stimms and then drinks enzymes and stops stimming...oh my gosh! It was incredible to watch!
So I pulled out my book on Enzymes that I never finished reading cause I did not think that they did anything ( How could they with all that stuff still in Jesses bowels! Gotta read it again!)
I am totally into learning about Bio med now.......... I think the biggest point is, Jesse STILL has Autism, but the Biomedical stuff helps get rid of that imbalance in his system so he looks more typical ( Much less stimming, etc) And Noah has none of these allergy issues so it is all new to me! This could be why some people think Bio med * recovers* kids withAutism....but core deficits are not effected by improving the food allergy.......just the appearance of behaviors are lessened....... I think, for Jesse anyway, It was becoming clearer to me thru the months that his stimming was something deeper....... He is progressing with RDI at an awesome pace, but the stimming just always got in the way! All the Biomed stuff I tried the past 18 months could not work cause Jesse had this condition and so it was hard to see drastic improvement because he was literally, backed up lol :)
So here I am, finding myself including Jesse in the *children allergic to Wheat and Gluten* category!
Drove to Storybook land today, and the whole way there, Jesse was looking out the window, singing to the cd, etc......... compared to stimming off his fingers for an hour.......
More to follow, as now Jesse becomes my little experiment :)
Kathy
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