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TnDoc's avatar

I work in cannabis medicine here in the US and such products can be a god-send for ASD folks. CBD products are worth trying for the gut and mood issues - and, sleep.

Stand strong. Proud of what you are doing.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

it absolutely kills me how these hysterical, screeching pseudo left-wing pols can have the audacity to claim to be 'on the side' of the autism community when they don't even know who/what the REAL autism community IS! oh dear, people with autism are insulted! news flash, people! MY son with autism doesn't understand what 'insult' even means!

all these pols are doing is participating in a vast, political 'pile on' against anything/everything that RFK jr & his team, are attempting to do, which is bringing sanity back into the public conversation. if they all would rather stay in the 'world according to Big Pharma', let 'em. the rest of us will struggle to move forward, like we always have. but yeah, some sanity would be more than welcome.

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Jane Wills's avatar

The partisan polarisation certainly seems to trump everything (pun intended!)

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Warrior Mom's avatar

and such an easy pun it is! hand that one to you on a silver platter ;)

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Tonya's avatar

Here's something that has changed since you first wrote this: a Google search no longer reveals the things you listed here. The censorship is almost complete; you can’t find any of these things unless you already know they exist, and even then, maybe not.

"Spend a few hours on Google and you discover the common link to the gut, you read about parents who have implemented gluten and diary-free diets with dramatic effects, and you hear about the gains that are made by detoxification."

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Jane Wills's avatar

Good spot. I hadn't thought about that. It would be interesting to hear what people new to the world of severe autism think - is it hard to find information?

There has been an explosion of research into all the things us parents talk about - gut, metabolic disorders, immunity etc

Using Google scholar is a great way to find things albeit that the paper abstracts can be v hard to digest without a dictionary.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

the substack called Popular Rationalism (OG in the community, Dr James Lyons-Weiler) has offered webinars for learning to read & comprehend research papers. usually just the abstracts can be helpful though. I always skip to the bottom to look at funding and conflicts ;)

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Warrior Mom's avatar

definitely need to advise everyone to use alternative browsers like Brave and even then, keep paging down.

my mentor gives the hint to start searches with "natural treatment of..."

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GregB's avatar

It is sad that so little has changed in 17 years but, as you know only too well, you are kicking against the establishment. You are simply not allowed to do that. As you wrote, it is all for the "greater good". We plebeians should just know our place and keep quiet, said the rulers!!

Keep up the good work.

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Baldmichael's avatar

All for 'greater greed' more like.

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Baldmichael's avatar

This might be useful to you if you haven't seen.

The Neurodiversity Industry is a Cover for Vaccine Injury

Part II: Two Narratives

CASSANDRA'S BOX

MAY 25, 2025

https://cassandrasbox.substack.com/p/the-neurodiversity-industry-is-a-801?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463957&post_id=164405568&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1olzph&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Jane Wills's avatar

Thanks! Hadn't seen this.

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