Girl I feel your pain. We just spent a mortgage payment on all types of supplements, tests, etc from a "new" doc claiming that it would take away some of the Rock's stimming and spaciness. Did it work? Of course not. It is very disheartening and makes you think there ARE bad people in the world waiting to profit on parents desparation. We'll never know.....

Nice post, Eventually, because of the therapuetic benefits horse riding was having on my autism, my parents got more *real* horses to feed my ever growing horse interests and obsessions. My autistic horse obsessions got so out-of-hand, that when my elementary school teachers tried to assign me seo "The Parthenon" as a subject to write about so I would NOT be able skynews to write yet another paper about horses, I discovered there were horses in the art frescoes around The Parthenon, and wrote about how beautiful they were !!
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I am very skeptical when it comes to supplements and certain treatments. I had a friend where we lived out of state who went to a DAN! doctor. I'm not saying that is typical of DAN! doctors, but this particular one has written many books that are highly touted in the ASD world. She started the regiment of lab tests, etc. and supplements. At every visit, the doctor would state that the new round of expensive tests showed improvement in certain areas, and that the child would eventually have no detectable autism symptoms to the untrained eye. While the physical symptoms improved over time, his behavior and communication really did not. She was happy that he had somewhat better digestion and possibly reduced allergy symptoms, but she was really out to help his autism symptoms.

Enter her pediatrician, who did not really agree with the protocol, especially sending off tests to specific labs that showed dramatically different results than the same tests run at standard labs. She ended up asking the mom to please go get genetic testing done. The mom finally agreed to do so, and found that her son was affected by one of the autism genes. No matter what she does in the biomedical world, it will not change the fact that her child will have autism. She may be able to help him with therapy, and maybe to some extent, biomedical interventions. But she now realizes that the promises made to her will not come true no matter how strictly she follows the protocol.

She now treats her son with any supplements that seem to help in HER opinion. When she refused to continue monitoring his body fluids via the specialty lab and go based on her own observation, the DAN! doctor refused to see her anymore because she would not strictly follow the protocol.

Ironically, the last lab results she received with the narrative had her child's name on it, but twice used a different name in the narrative writeup. That is very telling.

Lesson to us parents: Go with your gut feeling and what you see with your own eyes. Don't be swayed by what is on paper, especially if it is not proven science. That is not to say that people don't have other experiences. I use supplements for my child, but if I do not see improvement in whatever we are trying to help, we discontinue.

Just my 2 cents.