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Very welcome!

My son has AS. Now 14yrs old. He was and early talker and was reading by the age of 4. He is in 8th grade and has a 10-11th grade reading level.

Regarding speech, I have AS and was an early talker, but with some echolalia mixed in.

As for the GF diet - I have recently started this, and for the first time IN MY LIFE I am not tired all the time!

I was always tired, even as a young child, no matter how much I slept and doctors just fobbed it off as first anaemia, then depression and then just stress.

But within a few days of stopping the gluten, I suddenly wasn't tired anymore and can concentrate a lot better.

When I do cheat and have a little gluten, it makes me tired within a few hours.

I am also on a low-casein diet which helps - I can't have milk or ice-cream or soft cheese etc as they upset my stomach.

I also can't have pulses because they upset my stomach too, along with certain fruits.

Interestingly, I read recently that soya has similar proteins to casein, so perhaps that is why I have a problem with pulses?

I have to drink rice-milk as it is the only safe equivalent for me.

GF diet, or even GF/CF is worth a try.

There is an excellent and very user-friendly book on this by Luke Jackson.

I have a 7 yr old son with AS. I put him on a GF/CF diet when he was 3. This wasn't easy since he was mostly eating the foods I had to take him off of, but it made a difference in him within 2 days, and a dramatic change within 1 week! I would say he went from low functioning to high functioning in that time.
On occasion he has gotten some Glutten or Cacien, and I always know when he does because he starts stimming and he seems to go deaf. It will take him about 2 days to come "off" of it and to start acting like his old self again. I think he still craves some of the food, he still asks for a grill cheese every once in a while...I always feel so bad, I tell him he's alergic and that he will feel sick and it seems to help...

It was such a good decision for us to do this and I don't regret it one bit.

It was tough at first, and it was very expensive, but 4 years later it is now a part of our life and budget!! !

Tessa-Jane

Does anyone know if chronic constipation is symptomatic of a gluten or casein intolerance?