Since When Has No Dairy No Wheat Cured Autism

Maybe if Jenny McCartney's son, Evan was so easily cured of autism he never had it in the first place. Or maybe it's all the money she has to lavish on specialists. Will he get autism again if he starts drinking milk when he can hang around at his friends' houses?

Jenny McCarthy Needs To Shut Up Already

I didn't know that you could recover from autism. Maybe somebody should tell Jenny McCarthy that a child with autism can make progress, but it's a disease without a cure. She acts like she's the first mother that has ever had a child with autism. What mother who has a child with autism hasn't had to battle with doctors. Most of us just don't expect the world to applaud us for doing it.
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Autism Learning Games on Etsy

Designed to prepare autistic children for common tasks, these charts and booklets would be great for all small children. I especially like the what hurts and school lunch charts. Little kids aren't the greatest at telling parents what hurts. They just come and tell you, "I don't feel good." Then you have to play twenty questions. And can you imagine being five and going to the cafeteria for the first time. We rarely prepare them for that when we explain what happens at school.

Immunizations

These are photos of some of the diseases that immunizations prevents. Of course we can complain about them, we've never had to deal with them because we all had our immunizations. And this is why I had my youngest son immunized even though my youngest had autism. Keep your junk science, d-list celebs, and your un-vaccinated kids away from my sons. Maybe the rise in autism has to do with the rise in awareness and testing.
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey are campaigning to have mercury based preservatives removed from vaccines, despite the fact that they were removed about a decade ago. Maybe they should get their facts straight before they go out marching.
2 photos of diphtheria, polio, and measles.

Shame On Wendy Portillo

This bitch of a teacher allowed her kindergarten students to vote a boy who was later diagnosed with autism out of the class. But not before letting them tell him that he was disgusting and annoying. And they did it by a 14:2 margin. Alex Barton is no longer attending class. Forget about the boy having autism, she shouldn't be able to get away with doing this to any child. Somebody needs to be fired.
This sounds a lot like what happened with my son when he was in the sixth grade. He had to be removed to the school. Luckily his elementary school took him back for another year. Even though they had to hire a teacher just for him because they are only equipped to handle up to the fifth grade. But his middle school allowed kids to pick on him, and tried to send him to a school for the severely handicapped. Just three years later he is completely mainstreamed, and has around a 3.0 gpa. But they still won't admit that they could have handled things differently.
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Church Files Restraining Order Against Autistic Boy

After trying to accommodate the family of an autistic boy, Bertha's Church of Saint Joseph filed a restraining order preventing him from attending mass. He was disrupting the service, knocking people over (including the elderly), urinating in the church (adult diaper anyone?), spitting, and bolting from the church and starting someone else's car. The church offered to perform the mass at home (which most will do for the sick), or to provide him a room at the church with a tv. Just imagine the sensory overload of attending church; all of the noise, the people, the smells. But the mother wasn't having it.
I feel sorry for the family, sometimes you feel trapped at home. But the church has to protect the safety of the rest of the parishioners. My son has autism, and I would never take him somewhere that he would endanger others. He is terrified of doctors and needles. I sedate him before taking him to the lab because I know that he may hit a lab technician, or move when they are poking him and cause him unnecessary pain. And we go over what to expect at the doctors office starting two weeks before an appointment. Just because a child has autism doesn't mean that the rules do not apply. It is the rare child that wants to sit through church anyway.
WCSH6.com via Perez Hilton of all places.

The Importance of Early Childhood Education In Autism Detection

I knew something wasn't quite right fairly early on with my oldest son. He would sit and just bang his head on the wall when he was an infant. When I asked his doctor about it, the doctor told me it was normal, just something that babies did. I had my son when I was nineteen. I hadn't even ever changed a diaper before I had a baby. But I knew what the doctor was saying was a load of rubbish.

The good about having a baby at nineteen, you usually don't have that much money. I was able to get my son into a good Head Start program. He wouldn't interact with the other children. The staff had someone from the special ed Head Start class come have a look at him. They saw the problem right off, and were able to refer me to specialist and doctors who wouldn't treat me like an idiot. That early intervention made a world of difference. I was told that my son may never speak. He didn't really until he was six or so, but we didn't give up. He had great teachers who were willing to work with him, and would take the extra time to tell me what to do to help him. He started school in classes for the severely handicapped. Now he's a freshman in high school, mainstreamed in all of his classes with just an one on one aide in some of the classes. The aide is there to help him if he needs it, but has instructions to help other kids if my son doesn't need it. But if it hadn't been for Head Start my son probably still would be that kid with "nothing wrong", banging his head on the wall.

Autism Awareness Month Is Coming

Because do we really want Jenny McCarthy to be the only face of autism that people see?