I stopped 5 years ago. I don't send cards to ANYONE!!! Most people take a quick glance and throw them away anyway!!

Then how do you account for all the adult autistics that you claim exist in the same proportions?

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XTroll wrote: Autism is an epidemic right now. I don't see how anyone can be blind to this.

I'm not blind. It's just not true. You have your facts wrong. Your anecdotal experience does not make it an epidemic.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201006/007-no-autism-epidemic-part-1

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/008-no-autism-epidemic-part-2

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/009-no-autism-epidemic-part-3

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/010-no-autism-epidemic-part-3-more-data

It's bullshit propaganda. And you fell for it.

I wouldn't call going to a DAN! doctor that alternative though. They are western medicine's attempt at curing autism as they take a western medical approach by using pharmaceuticals like steroids, antifungals, antibiotics, MB12, antivirals, etc. What makes them different from your way of thinking is that they view autism as a physiological condition that in essence affects the neurological state.

Of the 2 friends who have cured their children's autism, one of which was medically diagnosed with Mitochondrial disease, neither of them cured their children with DAN! doctors, but not for lack of trying. Both had begun their healing journeys with a DAN! doctor, but bombed horribly.

In the end, it was the use of homeopathy, natural/holistic supplementation, and allergy elimination protocols such as NAET that brought them to cure. That is how they did it. Neither friend spent a penny of their money on behavioral therapies. Their children are completely integrated in elementary school now with zero assistance and they have lost their ASD labels by second grade. So you might say to me "well, they were never autistic to begin with"....but how do you know that? And how many OTHER children have the same thing as my friends' children that can be cured, but are possibly being mislabled? There is no way to know....and I guess if you don't try, you'll never know if your child could have been cured or not.

Look in Loudoun County. There are plenty of really nice townhouse developments that are new and near new schools as well. Loudoun always has "new" communities going up.

Anonymous wrote:Not every child with ASD is nonverbal. With intensive therapy, a lot can change. My kid was nonverbal up to age 3. Now she speaks read and comprehends very well. It took a looootttt of therapy but I wouldn't o it any different.

I don't think I would ever have categorized your child as non-verbal then, because there are many "late talkers" who are non-verbal until 5 or 6. I'm more referring to the OBVIOUS cases of severe autism, and the ones who never learn to speak. My son didn't speak until after 3, but I don't refer to him as ever being non-verbal.

Yes, autism existed in the 80's....but the rates were like 1 in 10,000. Currently, chances are 1 in 58 boys will be diagnosed with an ASD label. Not all of these will be non-verbal, but the ones that ARE will far ourweight the 1 in 10,000 from the 80's and 90's.

And you can't tell me that people with non-verbal children did not take their kid to the doctor to get a diagnosis. There are some obvious cases of autism out there. And it's prevelance has grown. I see "obvious" all over the place now.

I live in a neighborhood with less than 40 houses. There are no less than 3 diagnosed kids within those 38 families. That puts the stats more in the range of 1 in 4 families affected. This isn't because of misdiagnosis or overdiagnosis now vs underdiagnosis then, it is so freaking obvious that these kids are affliced that it cannot be denied. Autism is an epidemic right now. I don't see how anyone can be blind to this.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, there are a lot of accusations in there that do NOT match up with what I wrote, and what you quoted. Did you not read my entire post or did you stop reading after the word "drugging"? Where did I say "bad parent"? That is YOUR perception, not mine. If the word "drug" bothers you, get over it...pharmaceutical medications are drugs. You are playing victim to the wrong crowd....there is no insult in my post.

Go look back at old threads....every time an alternative medicine/therapy is brought up "science shill" chimes in and calls us unscientific idiots and says "don't listen to them, they're crazy".....we're the ones who are friggen attacked every time we mention an alternative to the mainstream.

Another NP who likes 10:53's post.

I think posts like yours are the ones the PP is referring to that turn people off. Perhaps you don't realize how you come across but I can tell you that no matter your actual words, I took your post the same way the PP did. Starting out by refusing to "drug" your child sure does set the tone and it colors every single word after that. It doesn't take long for people to recognize your writing style and carry those unpleasant thoughts with them when they read your posts. It doesn't matter what your POV is, you could be the biggest, loudest stronges proponent of medication out there but your tone would still turn me off. And don't be disingenuous by saying medication is a drug. We all know what you meant.

I'm fine with people posting about alternative approaches to treatment, we do some of them ourselves and many current mainstream treatments started out as alternative. We need to keep an open mind and do our own research. But when you post over and over again being so ugly, it does nothing to help you make your point. You become the thread bully.

I'm amazed at how thin-skinned any of you are. I don't pout every time I'm called a troll or called crazy for believing the things that I do. I'm not sitting around here calling anyone a "dumbass" either. But when you start calling me names and insulting my beliefs, you better believe that my ego will respond in turn with the same intensity. I don't care if you are turned on by my posts or not. My intent here is to be honest, and if you take offense to what I say or how I say something, that is your problem, not mine. Perhaps "you" and "I" have reached a stalemate, but there are other people reading who may resonate with what I write. It is for their benefit that I post the things that I do.....I could care less about our approval. There are other posters here defending alternative medicine here too...not just me.