My daughter Angelina has turned 11 years old today. What passed thru my mind was everything that we passed since the day she was diagnosed with autism. I thought to myself "Why me? and Why this happened if I did nothing wrong in this world to have this brought on my child? Now I learned throughout the years that this is not a cure or a disease; things happen for a reason and these are challenges that we have to go thru life to make us strong mothers.
Angelina from being in anti-depressant medicines when she was little; not she is for 3 years now off them and is completely Gluten-Free. I stick to this and think it has made improvements in my daughters way of life. I am not going to say that everything is 100 percent better, but I am happy for her to talk more and to write words and to draw things that she sees in her iPad.
I have entered Google so many times to make sure what things don't contain wheat; you will be amazed how many things contain wheat or factories of companies have them around the foods we buy. I trust Wegman's and for me that is the only store that I can honestly say I know if its Gluten-free then it is.
Nothing prepared us as parents to have a child with autism just as life didn't prepare me for this. You just have to learn how to be strong and get the resources for your child before years pass and things get more complicated in their growth. The emotional part will never pass; if you would to tell me now something about my daughter autism; I will probably have tears in my eyes.
I had so much support from my parents and thank them every day for their support in dealing with my daughter all these years.
I am reaching out to parents with ASD children (autism); to see what other biomedical things they do or foods to stay away from. This is an ongoing thing and for me as a parent if I have to turn to my phone and see web conferences (which I have seen TED conferences on autism) I would do everything to see how I can understand my child better.
People think because a child speaks that they don't have nothing and that autism would never happen; all I can say is evaluate when they are little. Now you can since they are 6 months old and autism is nothing wrong or bad or a disease. It just means they are special in their own way.
