Everyone with even marginal experience knows that facing autism can be quite frustrating. There are some daily challenges when caring for a loved one whose primary interests appear to be focused on discovering novel methods to stir trouble. Spilling oil on the carpet, flooding the kitchen, breaking glass and furniture, tearing books and documents, screaming and kicking the walls in ungodly hours... Are you keeping your cool? Where is your sense of humor?
This may seem like plenty, but there is a much bigger mess that needs to be sorted out, a mess bigger than anything our beloved can create, one that extends well beyond our human understanding. Yes, I am talking about autism research. Thousands of frustrated parents each with their own theory about autism etiology and threatment, high profile government researchers proclaiming autism an idiopathy and refusing to listen to anyone who claims to know anything, chelation, genetic links, vaccinations, swimming with dolphins, mercury, applied behavioral analysis (ABA), gluten free/casein free/specific carbohydrate diet, enzymes, supplements, speech therapy, special masters, expert witnesses, water filters, safe rooms, B-12 shots, calcium, tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide (TTFD), mitochondria, 2,3-Dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid (DMPS)...
So where do we start?
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