Aspies For Freedom

Why are there 'diets' for Aspies and Auties? I read about them across websites, and parents say it improves their Aspie/Autie children...

Does it really?

That's all

There seem to be alot of dogma around it in Norway, and definitely alot of misinformation. You might want to look at this thread.

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...?tid=11794

I'm very unsure, but I definitely don't think gluten and casein has anything to do with the cause of autism, but may cause other things that autistics especially could be susceptible to.

What is a diet?  Seriously, I can't seem to make some cravings for sweets go away.

A good diet helps me alot, some people would say it "cured" me, but those people just don't understand.
How people expect me to act and appear is a riddle to me, so it takes alot of my energy to socalise.
With a healthy diet, that I don't recommend only for autistics but for ANYONE, I get alot more energy to focus better in social situations, so people might think I'm suddenly "normal", but no I am not, I still think the way I did before.

Too much sugar makes me really tired, and tired>depressed, and I can't focus on anything really, so I decided to avoid sugar, especially for breakfast/lunch. It's surprising how much sugar some things contain, though you had no idea about it before.

And it also makes me perform twice as effective in school.

IF a person with autism also happens to have gluten/casien intolerance, or issues with food additives, then a special diet will generally help them feel better.  And feeling good is, well, good.

I get the impression quite a few people on the spectrum do have tummy troubles of one sort of another, so if diet can help sort that out, it's a good thing.

I don't think that makes them less autistic... although if someone's in constant pain from IBS or the like, they're going to be generally unhappy, out of sorts and probably unpleasant to be around.  So once the gut dramas are sorted out, and they are a happier, healtier person, they may seem "less autistic".

The famous urine test for peptides used by NeuroZym - Norway's big GF/CF promoter with Dr. Kalle Reichelt in the lead, appeared to be display positive results quite often even when it was not the case in this study - where none of 65 autistic boys appeared to have peptides in the urine when using a more accurate test.

What ya think about that?

Not sure if I got the facts right though, check the link.

In a dutch magazine I read that diets could indeed make life of children with ADHD easier. But.... there was no such thing as "The ADHD Diet". When children were reviewed carefully some of them really benefitted from a personally fitting diet.

That does make a lot of sense to me. The same will be true for NT children and for autistic children.

I don't think there is a dietary panacea.

My youngest daughter (NT? autistic? AD(H)D?, inbetweenie?) has a lot of candida issues. Some days it is very bad. Walking is difficult then, because of pain, and on those days she has diarrhea. So we cut sugar for 90% or so for a few weeks. And slowly introduce sugar again after that, until it is problematic again. The good periods can last weeks, months, seasons.

My oldest is autistic. She thrives on sugar. The first time she spoke to someone she did not know was after huge amounts of candy (after St Martins, sort of Halloween) The high sugar levels make her audacious. She dares to try things she will not do otherwise. But if she succeeds she might do them after the high sugar levels have gone too.

So yes. Food can have an influence. But THE ASD DIET?????  I dont think so.

Try eating more protein Chris.


What is your daily diet like?

http://www.bddiabetes.com/us/main.aspx?c...S_Diabetes
Maybe this may help-it's got some good alternative sugary things to try.
Diets don't work for me - they make me crave food more..
Apparantly the trick is to simply eat healthy stuff and develop good eating habits without depriving yourself of things..
hmm. Sounds like good advice I could try