livsparents wrote:
I actually have no true claim to be here. I have a 5 year old autistic girl and a 3 year old who is/may be PDD. I myself, I'm probably not AS, just a little geeky/antisocial. I just hope I can give you a more unbiased view of biomed therapies, and give you the disturbed view of a parent on the edge. I hope I can get a view from you of what my girls are going through, maybe see what they may face in next 10-60 years.
So tell me how I can advocate for you and I'll hopefully make you laugh and think...
Well after reading your www and the link contained, I see there are more points of view.
As an old Free Range Aspie who came up before any treatment, I might have something helpful to say. I have discovered the cure, of sorts. I eat a boring diet.
Many here on the, You might be an Aspie if, thread have mentioned that when you go to a restaurant, they say, the regular?
Fry on Futurama eats Bachlor Chow, from the bag with a spoon. I go for rice and beans, vegtables and rice, well cooked meat, and have been accused of being Chinese. I drink black coffee, and will eat the same thing everyday.
I saw the results of milk products, wheat, sugar, and cut them out of my diet long ago.
What I have found is likely what the biomed approch is about, symptoms related to food. A grilled cheese sandwich is the most horrible poison ever invented, right up there with Macaroni and cheese, which gives me migrains and a lot worse. It is the largest kid food group. Cereal with milk and sugar is in there.
I do not need drug companies to bash, I have the dairy industry, with their running dog US Dept. of Agraculture dairy support program. They also subsidise sugar, and milk and sugar are automaticly approved for any use. Fresh Frozen Green Beans, milk and sugar added.
It is not just gas, digestive problems, this stuff messes with my brain, and takes weeks to overcome a dose. Whatever it produces, I have no way to get rid of it, and that produces Autistic behavior.
This country's whole idea of diet comes from agracultural support programs for dairy, wheat, and sugar. Subsidies are paid, and the government becomes the advertising agency for what to me is poison. The four basic food groups are government support programs, not based on human needs.
I run well on bland food, rice, with veggies, or beans, and meat, seafood. Fresh fruit seems ok, the sugars do not have the same effect.
I am on the German Shepard Diet, eat all you want, once a day. The rest of the time it is black coffee, and water. In later years I did pick up an addiction to Gatoraid.
I recall the diet differances spoken of in James Mitchner's Hawaii, he compared the Anglo diet with the Asian diet, and the results, Anglos carried fifty pounds of lard, and suffered from many illnesses, and religious obsessions, the Asians did not, on their diet of basically rice. The Asians lived twenty years longer in good health, and could put out a good days labor. Rich Asians continued to live on rice.
I limit my food groups, and then eat the same thing for weeks, I do not get bored. My body likes dog food, same thing, same time, every day.
I am a machine, and the right fuel is clean burning, digests well, leaves me regular, and in a clear mental state. Sushi and green tea is likely the ultimate Aspie diet.
I would say I started life poisoned, and when I got away, my diet shifted on it's own, less, and plain shrimp and rice from the Chinese takeout. I grew up between 18 and 23. I do not have much good to say about my childhood, I was food poisoned and punished for the results.
It was the same at home and school. I went to work at 14. As soon as I was legal I left. My diet changed, and suddenly life improved.
I do not have any good memories of the first 18 years, they did everything they could to destroy me. I excelled in school, highest reading comprhension, highest in Science, but as I was not right in the head, I was punished for making the good little perfect kids look bad.
My self education was also taken badly. You can't just learn things, you have to be taught, by a teacher, in a school, or it does not count. I became very withdrawn from life, it was something about their god given right to beat me up, steal from me, because I was different.
I am, I work, save my money, buy tools, materials, study, and produce things to sell. I have owned several mechanic shops, and have had my tools stolen. It seems I am not a real person, I did not go to mechanic school, and me reporting theft to the police, I am seen as some crazy troublemaker.
Then I am called a paranoid, and I made up the story of having tools, my own business, and living in the world has just not worked for me. I cannot deal with a public that wants to have a reaction to my existance, of telling me they are going to beat me up, when both are adults. I am a social freebi, any one of you perfect people can do anything you like to me, and the rest of the perfect people will back you up. I cannot make a police report, testify in court, because I am different.
So I am my own law.
On the web I buy and sell with no problem, there I am just a human. I am sitting in a room with $25,000 in Repographis machines, and a gun, feeling lucky?
I cannot deal with anyone, for what they cannot steal, they try to destroy, for they have a real job.
I have found the US Patent and Trademark Office easy to deal with, I hold Patents, publish books, and any one of you perfect people would destroy me any way you could, because I am different.
I thought it was just me, but it is the common feeling of all business owners. Alexander the Great said, "He who subdues or surpasses mankind, must look down upon their wrath."
If it was not for the Internet I would have never been heard of again. I buy and sell worldwide, and following an AOL news article, "Ten medical conditions that give Superpowers," I found a link to WP, and was shocked. I joined within a day, the only forum I have ever joined.
I was sure I was the only one. After almost a year here, I still think so, but there are people who are close. There are other collections of driven talents, others who have had the same bad results trying to deal with Earthlings, and the strangest of all, I like some of them?
My best answer has been seclusion, silence, and a simple diet. Dealing directly with the world has never worked. My current plan is a hermitage in the mountains, with broadband. I would end my in person dealing with humans, they have not changed in the fifty years I have been watching.
All of this psychobabble from the pill pushing preists of the psychology religion, doctors, drug companies, the parents, schools, the electro shock, to help us fit someone else's view of what life is about, where we are always wrong, always punished, just does not work for me and never did. We do not belong with you.
I am my world. What joy I have found in living comes from within. I like some of the things made in the world, they are my customers, but I do not want to ever see any of them. Technohermit works!
I have no idea how you could advocate for me, or why you would think you could. It sounds insulting. Why would I need you? To whom would you Advocate? Why do you see me as incapable of managing my own affairs? Is your view that Autism = Mental ret*d?
What are your qualifications? Why do you feel fit to speak in anyone elses behalf? Are you perfect?
Do you draft and prosecute your own Patents, have you taken the Securities and Exchange Series 7 License course for Stock Broker, Corporate Governance? Do you run a publishing business, write books, or have an IQ higher than mine? Perhaps it is in the metal working factory I am setting up, can you program G Code for CNC machines? Can you design the tooling for plastic injection molding?
Is it just me, or are you going to Advocate for all of WP?
27 Dec 2007, 8:27 am
