The Myth of Autism - What do you Think?

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It is possible to have people grouped into one bundle and have misdiagnosis. If, after someone is diagnosed, a number of independent, double blind testing can confirm his theory, then???

Until then, one, I believe, would be jumping to conclusions one way or the other...which is not helpful.

I know from what I heard of my oldest brother, that once eggs where taken out of his diet he stopped rocking to the extent that put holes in the wall. He's still the same, but the eggs where amplifying his 'sensitivity'. Would he have been worse if my parents didn't try to check foods? Would they claim that the person, Say a Doctor, 'cured' him because he could now stop rocking and actually see those around him? Or was his life improved' and allow him to think autistic instead of being overwhelmed with what ever is in eggs that mess with him so much?

I am quickly coming to the conclusion that we can be comforted and function~able. We make are way through our lives by eating foods that don't mess with us, and 'learning' what we feel is necessary for personal happiness. Sometimes we need help with these things. All people 'feel' love. We just interpret it in our own way, which may not be easily defined in NT terms. But we do 'love'.

Off track a bit.

In a nut shell-is he doing any 'harm' to the kids he is trying to help?

No, I don't think he is doing any harm - he seems to be suggesting just the opposite. He says one should get a full medical work-up, including the measurement of titres to HHV-6, to see if there is a latent virus causing inflammation that restricts blood to part of the brain. Then to try dietary changes - elimination of dairy and wheat, in particular, to reduce strain on the immune system. I, for one, think that sounds reasonable. I'm kind of shocked that full medical work-ups aren't standard protocol when symptoms first present now.

Fraud.

Marie, it starts out reasonable; but when the first stuff doesn't work, these docs will have you try more and more stuff, until finally the kid does what kids do and learns something quickly, at which point the doctor claims a cure...

Yes, a thorough physical should be standard practice when doing an autism evaluation. However, it should not be done by a quack like this one.

"...and yet we are condemning these parents and children to no future"

good sir, go to hell.