Posts by Jennifer Z

For the record, I am the mom of an Autistic child, and he would probably not be described as "High Functioning" by people who like give those meaningless labels.    I would also like to point out that even if my child...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lakeeffectsnow  I did read the entire thread. Let me be more verbose. I find you use of the term 'welfare queen' without the slightest bit of irony to condescending. Furthermore, for someone...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kamiro  Thank you Mirzam. Nice to meet another ASD parent who didn't vax. I was starting to feel like I was dying on the hill of "Just to be difficult!". lol Checking out the links...

I bet that IF there is any correlation, it is because Autistic kids have poor motor planning, which can easily translate into meaning that breastfeeding is difficult for them, which leads moms who don't have hours upon hours of time to...

And I have met a lot of attachment parents, with no birth interventions, with natural home births, non-vaccinated (at least for many years, although a lot of us went on to vaccinate years after the Autism dx when Wakefield was found to...

Breastfed for 5.5 years.  Still Autistic. Breastfed the younger one for 3.5 years.  Not Autistic. (speech delayed, but in a "needed speech therapy to help be more articulate" way, not a language...

You should get a shirt or blanket with the state law on it to help fend off the people who aren't supporting you.  http://www.cafepress.com/articulatepixelsdesign/9452250 I know I got hassled a lot, but it was still worth it.

Even ABA therapy for Autism isn't "sit and drill" for a kid that age (heck, for any age that I have seen) if the SLP is anything other than totally backwards.  We had some ABA based therapy, and it was still very play based and...

Speech Therapy is not about drilling the kid for an hour a day.  It isn't even close to that, or at least it certainly wasn't in our experience.  It is about getting processes set up that makes the day go smoother, learning...

And being afraid of labels...I was too.  So much, that when I was interviewed about my child for a magazine, that is what they focused on in the article. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-7257