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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an ASD kid, diagnosed in kindergarten.

I went the biomedical route, and my kid responded really well. My kid's an adult now, graduated from college and grad school at the top of the class, has a very good job. Socially, my kid has friends, but I would call my kid socially awkward. Way back in k, though, before I found the biomedical route, my kid's teachers told me my ASD child would never finish high school.

The first treatment I was told about was ABA, but after calling one provider in my area, I decided it's a scam. I was absolutely floored by all the pressure I got from this provider's office, who scheduled my kid for weekly sessions and called repeatedly, pressuring me to sign a contract for thousands and thousands of dollars for this supposed treatment for ASD.

I've posted about this many times on this board, but there's this "autism is permanent" mentality that pervades here. My kid's doctor says autism is a treatable condition, but that ASD kids will likely have issues forever, which is true in the case of my kid.

Here is a good summary of biomedical treatments: https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/articles/an-introduction-to-possible-biomedical-causes.html

I changed my kid's diet (our entire family's diet), our house (my kid had terrible allergies), did tons of therapy: pt, ot, speech therapy. We did a bunch of alternative therapies that seemed to help incrementally. I was very careful to get only thimerisol-free vaccines. We chelated my child, which helped a lot, even though it scared the bejezus out of me. Cleaning up my kid's diet helped the most, as well as chelation. Digestive issues are a huge part of my kid's ASD.

It's very difficult to find a good biomedical treatment doctor, and most do not take insurance. They are often "functional medicine" doctors. Mine has retired, but he was fabulous. He literally saved my kid's life.

I'm not an earthy groovy person, and I was very skeptical of "alternative" treatments, but when I saw they worked, and that the ABA-type "therapies" held out no hope for my kid, I climbed on board the biomedical route to ASD. I'm glad I did.

I know a family in my church who followed the ABA route with their ASD kid, and that kid, who I think may be just as bright as my ASD kid, isn't going to college and can't live in his own. He screams at church, like he's in pain, which I'm sure he is. My kid was like that. But I knew my kid's condition wasn't permanent because my child at times would have mostly normal conversations. This other ASD child does too, which is heartbreaking for me to see.  I tried to let the mom know about the biomedical approach, but her kid is 15, and she isn't willing to change course, which I find sad, mostly for her kid.

Good luck, OP. It's a long, hard road with an ASD diagnosis. I believe all the chemicals in our environment are what's caused this uptick in ASD kids, particularly Round-Up, which is in all our bodies. There's some research pointing in this direction, but Dow Chemical is powerful enough to squelch similar efforts.

Clean up your child's diet and environment as much as you can, and you'll start to see a difference in your child's behavior.

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DP. Just going to push back on this a bunch. You can’t say x worked for my child and this other person’s child because there is tnt one established cause of autism and you don’t know any given person’s commorbidities . Some people do ABA and have the same results your kid had. Also if an autistic child also has substantial ID I don’t see how changing diet will result in them going off to college. I think it can be good to keep an open mind but there are definitely autistic children that have died for chelation because that is not something that is appropriate for every child. It’s also not an either or thing and I know a lot of families who have pursued biomedical interventions and ABA. [/quote]

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