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The Diet
So one of the first things we started doing was changing his diet. The premise here, is that certain proteins, especially the complex ones are difficult to breakdown and digest. This is further exasperated as a problem with all the genetically modified crap that our farmers feed us. There are 2 main proteins which we target: Gluten […]
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Team manager of the year
My wife Jen is awesome! What she needs to do on a daily basis is nothing short of amazing. When we first started to embark on this journey, I read an article that mentioned how raising a child with autism is like managing a pro-sports team. Jen is that manager, and a damn good one […]
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Tears of Hope
Everyday, I spend a few minutes by myself… staring at nothing… searching… crying. Everyday since I found out, I think about it. Hoping… wanting… needing. Often people walk up to me, and ask what’s wrong. My normal response is nothing. I’m lying! I’m not always sad though. Those tears, and red eyes, aren’t sad… they’re […]
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That Face!!!
Putting together some stuff for Walk Now for Autism Speaks. Looking through pics of Chase, and found a collection of pics I took of him last summer while in SoCal at the Zoo. I did a series of various poses of his facial expressions. He was just in the right mood, and I snapped the […]
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Supporting the cause
Autism awareness month is April. To kick it off, April 2nd is Light it up Blue day. To cap it all off, on May 18th is the Bay Area Walk Now for Autism Speaks fundraiser. Needless to say, we will be involved in all of this, and invite others to participate as well. As part […]
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Looking for lemonade
Big announcement by the CDC today. Previously the rate for Autism, as studied in 2008, was 1 in 88. Well the new study [PDF] is in, and the rate has skyrocketed yet again. Today 1 in 50 children have Autism. That’s 2% of all children will receive a diagnosis for a disorder which will impair their cognitive […]
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That Gut Feeling
Autism is a complex neurological disorder, comprising of a multitude of different smaller disorders, and grouped into one umbrella. Rates for autism are increasing every day. Today 1 in 54 boys are diagnosed with Autism…. 1 in 54. Think about that. Do you know 54 different young boys? 1 of them has autism. This is […]
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Sentences
We keep a daily journal on Chase. Something we can go back on, understand different techniques and how they are working. We get lots of bad days, but a couple days ago, we got a nice entry, that warmed my heart. I’m currently out of country on a business trip, so my wife has to […]
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Step 1 … this is getting laughable
So first it was the HMO that gave us issues. Then is was the Healthcare provider. Now we are back at the HMO, where in the words of my wife: “They’re running their operations on sticky notes purchased from the dollar store.” We finally got Aetna, to provide us a list of ABA therapists in […]
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Autism to the power of Family
So this one is going to be 5 or 6 on the sappy scale… You’ve been warned. Chase has been in IEP for nearly a year. Like all school programs he gets breaks, sometimes a few days, sometimes an entire week, and in the summer, over a month. When on breaks we notice Chase regresses […]