So if you read my post yesterday, you know Autism Recovery IS possible. And maybe you even got excited and started to clean up the diet. We had a dramatic change in our son just 3 days after going gluten free casein free (GFCF). That is correct 3 DAYS! Our child, who could not say a novel sentence and who had such serious low muscle tone that he couldn’t crawl, hands and knees up the stairs, had climbed onto my kitchen counter and said “I watch mommy make dinner.” There are 2 distinct things I want you to take away from that statement. The first and most obvious is the fact that the diet worked, and it worked quickly. Just by removing some foods that he had trouble with, our son began to do things he should have been able to do before. This is dramatic improvement without assistance. It was even noticed by his physical therapist, occupational therapist and speech pathologist the next time they saw him. The second item I want you to walk away with is that he was learning all along. Even though he could not get his body to function the way he wanted, he was indeed taking in everything and once he was able to show and express himself, then it became apparent that he was learning from his previous experience. I guess there is one other thing I want you to walk away with and that is there is a profound connection between the gut and the brain. If the gut is a mess, then so is the brain.
This change in our son showed us that he could improve and that made me dig deeper into autism recovery. There are a ton of options out there and this is where I say it can get overwhelming and sometimes scary. It took us about 6 years to bring about autism recovery in our son. I think we could have done it quicker. By that I mean if I had known then what I know now, and more importantly if I had been willing to do then what I was willing to do now, Matthew would have recovered sooner. The problems is most people aren’t ready. If changing your child’s diet scares you there is no way you are going to be willing to look into Chelation, Hyperbaric Chambers or Homeopathy, or other therapies that really heal our kids. It isn’t that I wouldn’t do everything in my power to recover Matthew, it was that I was afraid of those things I knew nothing about. I had people, people I trusted (I learned not to trust them so much after we started to recover him), telling me the diet was dangerous. For a long time I believed them. Then I grew a pair, and did my own research. I learned what really was going on and I was willing to heal my son. That was all it took. Now he is so much better than he has ever been before and more than anyone ever expected.
Again, I’m a bit long winded so I’ll stop here and continue soon.
