tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post9052943252640335001..comments2023-10-30T11:10:59.153-05:00Comments on What are they thinking?: WHAT AUTISM ISN'T....Mom26childrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13218226918121229676noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-50328500153213680762009-06-05T16:30:31.658-05:002009-06-05T16:30:31.658-05:00I would like to commend you wholeheartedly for you...I would like to commend you wholeheartedly for your true reasonability in regards to this truly one-sided article. I love that you are so adamant in your pleas for and commitment to neurodiversity! I absolutely agree with you. You must be a really great mother; your children seem wonderful, from what I have read and seen! I enjoy reading your blog very much. I have missed your posts the past month or so, although I am sure you are extremely busy!<br /><br />Thank you for your clear-headedness!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-84742074538741584152009-06-04T14:26:22.897-05:002009-06-04T14:26:22.897-05:00*applause**applause*mommy~dearesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07851309941513538983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-91795791306500849542009-05-28T15:01:12.555-05:002009-05-28T15:01:12.555-05:00Hey! Thanks for this blog and for standing up for ...Hey! Thanks for this blog and for standing up for what MANY parents with kids living with autism believe. I am in your camp. If you don't mind, I'd love to add a lind to your blog on mine: http://www.thesamechild.blogspot.com.<br /><br />I'll be back to read more often!<br /><br />~JonJon Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118810649516535880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-34112661801194051512009-05-22T16:37:36.147-05:002009-05-22T16:37:36.147-05:00Thanks Animator's Wife...
Lots of things happeni...Thanks Animator's Wife...<br /> Lots of things happening in the news of Autism lately...<br /> By the way...I have a very good animator in our house. Erin, our 12 year old daughter is getting quite good at Anime'..she loves it.<br /><br /> JeanetteMom26childrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218226918121229676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-1142547853089991132009-05-22T13:34:18.362-05:002009-05-22T13:34:18.362-05:00I'm glad you're speaking up and SPEAKING OUT! I l...I'm glad you're speaking up and SPEAKING OUT! I love your take on your children and agree completely. Keep on speaking...The Animator's Wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13595960635769289650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-83720631221831620312009-05-17T22:45:00.000-05:002009-05-17T22:45:00.000-05:00Oh my Lord. Thank God I found you! I thought I w...Oh my Lord. Thank God I found you! I thought I was the only one who felt this way...and I only have one kid on the spectrum. I am having the same troubles up here in O-HI-O....what is with this new McCarthyism? Who is going to stop this woman?<br /><br />Why do all these people think they have broken children and Jenny is going to bring them cures in her well-manicured hands!?sarah manville gannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11680682198486352509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-55816643214967748472009-05-04T20:00:00.000-05:002009-05-04T20:00:00.000-05:00I just came across your blog and I just have to sa...I just came across your blog and I just have to say THANK YOU!! I am a mother to an amazing 2.5 year old that was diagnosed with PDD-NOS in Oct. '07. I read through some of your other blogs and its refreshing to see that there are more people than just me that are sick of all the cure this and cure that crap. I haven't been involved with Autism half as long as you have, but I am already sick to death of people relying on a girl that used to pick her nose on MTV for a living. So again, thank you for trying to spread some truth out there!Barbie1158https://www.blogger.com/profile/08991696914764007195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-16603949725953884102009-05-04T16:43:00.000-05:002009-05-04T16:43:00.000-05:00Gah. Yeah, sure, kids with autism can have GI issu...Gah. Yeah, sure, kids with autism can have GI issues. They can also have seizures, yet nobody tries to define autism as a seizure disorder and put everyone with autism on seizure meds, right?Nostrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12318778642826457497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-58750987382398098032009-05-04T09:16:00.000-05:002009-05-04T09:16:00.000-05:00Yikes.
Stand up for what you know to be true, si...Yikes. <br />Stand up for what you know to be true, sister. <br />Your approach isn't sensational, but it's what works!<br />I'll be thinking of you...Mothership Captainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09481697075995258634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-38556689016818893262009-04-22T20:45:00.000-05:002009-04-22T20:45:00.000-05:00Hi there. Another thing that really gets me about ...Hi there. Another thing that really gets me about her response to you is the utter disregard for what is factual vs. what is anecdotal. She presents, both in that "article" and in her response to you, anecdote and defensiveness as though it were fact. She made no effort whatsoever to investigate, confirm, or demonstrate any scientific accuracy for anything she's asserting (and there isn't any, as she'd've found, if she'd looked). She's no journalist, certainly. I'm appalled that she's billing herself as a "writer" of any stripe, given her apparent inability to practice even the most basic tenets of journalism.<br /><br />And then you have to ask...what were the editors thinking? Were there editors? Oh...and then, you remember...$$$.EJ Willinghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07333507287598525182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-23750226911570546742009-04-22T14:42:00.000-05:002009-04-22T14:42:00.000-05:00Hey Joseph, I have high triglycerides, too.
The d...Hey Joseph, I have high triglycerides, too.<br /><br />The difference is, you're autistic, right? So you have autistic high triglycerides, whereas I, not being autistic, just have high triglycerides.<br /><br />Isn't that how it works?<br /><br />So take some fish oil - that's what my doctor recommended. If it helps with your triglycerides, we'll call it an autism treatment.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578123223843089702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-32925591324145140612009-04-22T13:20:00.000-05:002009-04-22T13:20:00.000-05:00Likewise with Kathleen, I think the information ca...Likewise with Kathleen, I think the information can be quite overwhelming at the beginning.<br /><br />Interestingly recently my son's diet has changed 100% however, other than that, being generally healthier, I don't notice any other changes.<br />CheersMaddyhttp://whittereronautism.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-44379821598785894352009-04-22T10:28:00.000-05:002009-04-22T10:28:00.000-05:00Sometimes dietary changes are necessary.Absolutely...<I>Sometimes dietary changes are necessary.</I>Absolutely. For example, I went to the doctor because my triglycerides were high. Of course, my diet needs to improve, and I need to exercise and so forth. <br /><br />But how is this sort of thing related to autism?<br /><br />There's no reliable science indicating that GI issues are related to ASD in any way. <br /><br />Thoughtful House is associated with Andrew Wakefield. That in itself makes it a place that deals in quackery, so no information coming from it should be taken seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-54017805237830020702009-04-22T08:46:00.000-05:002009-04-22T08:46:00.000-05:00I think the scarey thing here is that human beings...I think the scarey thing here is that human beings can have a tendency to believe everything they hear. For me the issue isn't one particular thing.(such as (a)definition of autism) It's Everything. We live in a world of sales. This means the world is constantly trying to rope in 'concrete definitions' in order to sell their product. If I can advise my kids(autistic and not)and myself in anyway it's that I take time to stop, wade thru the BS, and listen to my intuition.. Any of us as imperfect as we may be do not have to succumb to consumming ANY idea sold to us out there. Including those from the so called 'experts'.Autumnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-42569402226170375402009-04-22T07:59:00.000-05:002009-04-22T07:59:00.000-05:00Sometimes dietary changes are necessary. When your...Sometimes dietary changes are necessary. When your child for 2.5yrs has had constant diahhrea with a raw bottom that makes you and him cry every time you wipe it... there's a problem. Being shrugged off as "some children with autism are like that" is not an answer.<br /><br />48hrs of no dairy, it, the daily (night and naps) nightmares/terrors were gone. The "stoned" (tripping, leaning when sitting, falling without putting out his hands) were gone. Ever seen a child run into the greenhouse, trip over his own 2 feet and fall face first into the wooden forms for the water beds... without putting out his hands... TERRIFYING!!!! I'm happy he hit his forehead and not his face...<br /><br />7 days after removing the dairy, a little pad of butter on a freezer pancake turned into a 24hr nightmare.... have you ever seen a very, very calm child, look you in the eye and then slam his head off a concrete step hard enough to leave swelling and a bruise.... I have.<br /><br />Cure... No. And it was only my "mild" one, the severe one dairy removal has done nothing, but then again he didn't have the stomach problems.<br /><br />Why would Dr's not tell you to check foods when there is a family history of IBS, but decide not to b/c he has autism?? <br /><br />Then again.. the teenager up the road, has just come home from the hospital, years of illness has finally got a feeding tube, will not be back to school until Sept and has Crones disease.... Dh's cousin's child had to have his intestines burst in the middle of his Gr 1 class and nearly bleed to death before they got him (airlifted) to the local children's hospital after years of complaining of stomach pains. Easier to blame child and parent, that to do something about it.<br /><br />I'm not into doing the chelation or HBot or other treatments that IMO aren't safe.... but I also know better than to cast stones about something I have never tried and know little about.<br /><br />S. - who's children are also doing AMAZING... I expect the re-dx at Gr 8 (I refused to do it at Gr 4 b/c they'd remove his OT - putting in a permanent computer) will say "no longer has autism". Oh, the LD will still exist.... only a fool gets rid of all the paperwork.farmwifetwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680758336779501712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32355297.post-27599889525055719922009-04-22T07:03:00.000-05:002009-04-22T07:03:00.000-05:00Well done..Whenever I see articles like the one yo...Well done..Whenever I see articles like the one you responded to, I think about how glad I am that I am not among the newly diagnosed. Have you thought about taking both your letter and response and fleshing them out into an article?Would that particular publication be willing to present a different point of view?kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648854807234137885noreply@blogger.com