Alex2kMommy
<font color=purple>I'm going a little nutso myself
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I love this reviewer's comments on Jenny McCarthy's book. Or I guess more to the point, why I like McCarthy's approach, which is we don't have all the answers, but here's what worked for us. You are your child's parent, you will know what's best for your child.
Whenever somebody says "This is it! This is the cure for everyone!" I get suspicious. With such a variety of symptoms I doubt that there is one cure for every situation. I suspect in the future we'll see that "autism" will be better defined into specific causes and solutions, right now it is just a term used for a collection of seemingly similar, unexplainable symptoms.
Here's what she had to say about McCarthy's book:
"This book isn't about answers or easy cures that worked for Evan McCarthy; every child with autism is different. For us, we knew we had to figure out a dietary balance for his brain, gut and severe multiple allergies and a proper early intervention program. He no longer looks blankly at a wall, stim for hours or sleeps 4-5 hours at a time. We still have a long way to go with education and diet, but we have a little boy who has shown improvement in socialization with his family and teachers because he is feeling so much better.
"As Jenny says in the end, this is a book about FAITH, having faith in yourself as a parent to do the best of your ability in seeking help for your child's health and well being. Some male readers (i.e. fathers) may be put off by the disheartening tone she has towards the father of her son for most of the book but we have to remember it is not directed at fathers in general. This is a telling of her life experience so it is rather autobiographical. I highly recommend for people, who are getting this book for parents of children with autism, to read it first before passing it along... so many parents already know what needs to be done, but they need their friends and family to understand too."
Whenever somebody says "This is it! This is the cure for everyone!" I get suspicious. With such a variety of symptoms I doubt that there is one cure for every situation. I suspect in the future we'll see that "autism" will be better defined into specific causes and solutions, right now it is just a term used for a collection of seemingly similar, unexplainable symptoms.
Here's what she had to say about McCarthy's book:
"This book isn't about answers or easy cures that worked for Evan McCarthy; every child with autism is different. For us, we knew we had to figure out a dietary balance for his brain, gut and severe multiple allergies and a proper early intervention program. He no longer looks blankly at a wall, stim for hours or sleeps 4-5 hours at a time. We still have a long way to go with education and diet, but we have a little boy who has shown improvement in socialization with his family and teachers because he is feeling so much better.
"As Jenny says in the end, this is a book about FAITH, having faith in yourself as a parent to do the best of your ability in seeking help for your child's health and well being. Some male readers (i.e. fathers) may be put off by the disheartening tone she has towards the father of her son for most of the book but we have to remember it is not directed at fathers in general. This is a telling of her life experience so it is rather autobiographical. I highly recommend for people, who are getting this book for parents of children with autism, to read it first before passing it along... so many parents already know what needs to be done, but they need their friends and family to understand too."
If fact, our local community college has a class in it. Not a for credit class, just one of those adult education classes. I dont know much about it, it seems like new age junk to me. I dont know that it is linked to Autism, but maybe. 
They even help pay for his special diet and for respite care. 
