Yes, cure, continued
Fourth point: the proof is in the pudding. Practitioners(doctors and others) who take the biomedical approach are
curing kids with autism. Day in, day out. Their continuing search for better understanding and better techniques is not caused by a 0% success rate... it's caused by a success rate less than 100%. (As well, the science is relatively new.) There is not a
simple cure, there's no one therapy that works for all, because autism is not a simple disease. It lives in the byzantinely-complex world of the body's metabolic biochemistry, starting in the gastro-intestinal tract, and ultimately determining whether the nerve tissue in the brain is able to fire off in a co-ordinated, efficient manner or not (thus it
is a neurological disorder -- but with a gastro-intestinal-centred cause. This is why so many kids with autism also have diarrhea, constipation and other bowel problems). More than one part of the biochemical dance can go out of whack, with different aspects going out of whack in different kids, and therefore different methods within the framework having different rates of success with different kids. (It is for this reason that you can't dismiss a diet because it hasn't worked with one kid. The gluten/casein-free diet produced improvements in both of mine. Obvious question -- are there statistics on the effectiveness of the gluten-free casein-free diet? Yes, there are. As well as on other biomedical techniques. I have the URL for that too.) But these successes are
not recognized by the mainstream medical world -- because to recognize them, the mainstream medical world would have to admit that most autism has been caused by its own practices. And it doesn't want to get into that much trouble.
Fifth point -- just to complicate things more -- mercury isn't the only environmental factor implicated in autism. Vaccines contain aluminum, also, another neurotoxin. Flame-retardant fabrics are a source of antimony -- which is a worse neurotoxin, pound for pound, than mercury. As well there is evidence that a measles virus, specifically the vaccine version rather than the natural disease, is involved. There's even some evidence, now, that toxicity can be inherited -- what parents have taken into their bodies can affect their children. But there are methods -- both conventional and not so conventional -- to address all these things.
So -- Deborah is right, there
is a cure... but it is not a simple, easy or quick one. There's no one method that will cure every autism case. But at the same time, the standard medical pronouncement, "There is no hope, throw him in an institution and forget he exists," is just plain wrong.
When searching for a health professional to help with autism, I strongly recommend choosing a Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) practitioner. These are the people, and the followers of the people, who've been exploring every avenue, without medical establishment bias, since Bernard Rimland shot down the "refrigerator mother" theory, which was then the mainstream medical position, in the late 60s. Click
here for the DAN! website.
In healing,
Karen
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. My wife has been involved with the disabled and autistic kids during school and I know she likewise will be very appreciative of this link.....
