It’s extremely important to note that our scientific understanding of Autism is still very primitive. One of the key missing pieces is the understanding of different types of Autism. We now know there are different causes of Autism, but the picture is not yet complete. Without the ability to categorize and identify different subsets of Autism, it’s impossible to prove statistically that one treatment does not improve the condition.

It’s important to look at both scientific discovery as well as anecdotal evidence. While scientific discoveries are obviously a lot more solid than anecdotal treatment, they are inevitably behind. So for parents who are running out of time, there’s a very solid and rational ground for trying out reasonable methods that have garnered anecdotal successes.

If allergy test indicate need for the diet than
it works. Each child is a individual and test for allergy only can help a child feel better. So if a child feels better why would it not work? Testing is the key!

Maybe some of you idiots should try it before knocking it. My daughter is one child who has made great strides by being on this diet. It has been confirmed by a traditional doctor that she has a severe allergy to milk and pineapple. He said that she probably does have intolerance to other foods too, due to the long term damage from 2 1/2 years of allergen exposure. She is 3 and besides a speech delay, you would not know that she is Autistic now. This is far from where she started 9 months ago. She had no eye contact, would wake up all hours of the night, had only 5 words, hand flapped and ran around like superman. Explain that to me Einstein? She wasn’t one the kids having tons of other theapies at the time either.

The diet does not work, if you child has sensitivites than it is fine for you to use, but don’t force it on a child who doesn’t need it. Has anyone ever done a double blind study on it? We have. We have 7 children with autism, we put some on the gluten/casien free diet, some on a natural foods diet, and the rest were allowed to eat anything they wanted. Guess what, they all made the same amounts of progress around the same times! Same thing with the whole vaccination debate, we had some children vaccinated, some were not, and guess what, ALL ended up with autism. You know what that tells us, Genetics plays the role, not foods, not vaccines, genetics is the key! You want your children to succeed, work with them, force them out of their comfort zones and make them work with you, even if it means they cry and fight you for hours! Forcing them out of their comfort zone makes them understand that the world does not run how they want it to, that they have to adapt to live in it. You know how I know, my husband and I have autism too. (Autistics attract! Who else could understand us more than one of our own?) We were told our children would be non-verbal and they had severe autism, but each of them is fully verbal and you cannot tell any of them have it except for the occasional hand flap, noise, or out of place laugh.