BeckyScott
<font color=magenta>I am still upset that they don
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- Mar 5, 2007
I'm just feeling the need to defend her a little.
She uses the word "recovered", not cured. She doesn't believe she cured him. She equates it to being hit by a bus. You can recover, everyone to a different degree, but you're not cured.
When she was on Oprah the first time, she was there with Holly Robinson Peete, who also has a child with autism and was the one that first introduced Jenny to everything.
And she doesn't believe it will work for everyone. She is very careful to point out that it worked for her son.
What I think she did was put on the front page, the idea that some things can be tried that could make a difference. Not every parent sits on the computer for hours reading like most of us do. Some parents are confronted with a diagnosis and a "good luck with that" and pushed out the door. At least maybe she got those parents to think, and to look at options.
I have to give her a bit of credit here. My story is this- when DS was diagnosed, I had already read about gfcf and asked the dr- a very well-respected dev ped at a very well-respected children's hospital. She said no, don't bother. And I was willing to try it anyway, but my family was not supportive. And the years rolled on, and I always wondered about it in the back of my head, as DS's diet consisted of nothing but gluten and casein.
Then Jenny showed up on Oprah and Larry King and suddenly I wasn't crazy anymore. DH was willing to let us go to a DAN dr. And I had some support when I took DS gf/cf. And we found out he had a lot of food allergies. We didn't ever think we'd "cure" him. And all the stuff we've done, mostly has had the effect on his body rather than his autism, if that makes sense. Helped his asthma and eczema, helped the stimming. He still has autism. But it did make a difference.
My DS didn't have an 18-month regression, and I'm not sure if he had the vaccine-thing happen earlier, or if he was born with autism. There were some signs very very early on. JMHO, there's more than one cause, and I think the whole DAN thing probably works better for kids that are "vaccine kids" and not every child with autism is one of those. There was a court case (and many to follow I'm sure) where the parents won because they proved vaccine damage, so it's not like Jenny is way out in left field that way. The AAP has acknowledged that artificial colorings can exascerbate things like ADHD.
She isn't even anti-vaccine, although everyone keeps trying to peg her that way. She just thinks they need to be scheduled different, spaced out more, and the child should be looked at better to make sure their immune system is healthy before they get shots. That's really not unreasonable.
She uses the word "recovered", not cured. She doesn't believe she cured him. She equates it to being hit by a bus. You can recover, everyone to a different degree, but you're not cured.
When she was on Oprah the first time, she was there with Holly Robinson Peete, who also has a child with autism and was the one that first introduced Jenny to everything.
And she doesn't believe it will work for everyone. She is very careful to point out that it worked for her son.
What I think she did was put on the front page, the idea that some things can be tried that could make a difference. Not every parent sits on the computer for hours reading like most of us do. Some parents are confronted with a diagnosis and a "good luck with that" and pushed out the door. At least maybe she got those parents to think, and to look at options.
I have to give her a bit of credit here. My story is this- when DS was diagnosed, I had already read about gfcf and asked the dr- a very well-respected dev ped at a very well-respected children's hospital. She said no, don't bother. And I was willing to try it anyway, but my family was not supportive. And the years rolled on, and I always wondered about it in the back of my head, as DS's diet consisted of nothing but gluten and casein.
Then Jenny showed up on Oprah and Larry King and suddenly I wasn't crazy anymore. DH was willing to let us go to a DAN dr. And I had some support when I took DS gf/cf. And we found out he had a lot of food allergies. We didn't ever think we'd "cure" him. And all the stuff we've done, mostly has had the effect on his body rather than his autism, if that makes sense. Helped his asthma and eczema, helped the stimming. He still has autism. But it did make a difference.
My DS didn't have an 18-month regression, and I'm not sure if he had the vaccine-thing happen earlier, or if he was born with autism. There were some signs very very early on. JMHO, there's more than one cause, and I think the whole DAN thing probably works better for kids that are "vaccine kids" and not every child with autism is one of those. There was a court case (and many to follow I'm sure) where the parents won because they proved vaccine damage, so it's not like Jenny is way out in left field that way. The AAP has acknowledged that artificial colorings can exascerbate things like ADHD.
She isn't even anti-vaccine, although everyone keeps trying to peg her that way. She just thinks they need to be scheduled different, spaced out more, and the child should be looked at better to make sure their immune system is healthy before they get shots. That's really not unreasonable.
I think the name should be changed.
