I never forgot that moment when I got to know my only son is a child with ASD…it takes about a year to accept the fact and now the life is going on routine. Being a mom of an 8 year old AUTISTIC CHILD..i can feel the same as million of moms having the same child like mine..But the sad part I feel in the story there is no miracle cure for the disorder… and more and more children are being diagnosed with autism each year. According to the Center for Disease Control, one in every 150 children suffer from the condition. It is getting harder to get all the appropriate therapeutic services for a child suffering from delays associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders because of the increase in demand.
While everyone is grappling to explain the explosion of cases of autism all over the world, some theories are proving to be more plausible than others. The Casein and Gluten rich diet that we now have mostly found in dairy products and wheat are said to affect the DNA tagging of the brain. This is known as methylation. Along with other chemical toxins from artificial additives and those found in traditionally grown produce, the combined assault of unnatural substances in the human diet to the brain may be increasing the symptoms associated with autism.
There are are actually many cases (although not all) where autism and ADHD symptoms were reduced as the children began eating mostly casein-free and gluten-free organic foods. One celebrated case is Jenny McCartney’s son. He reportedly recovered from autistic symptoms after she drastically changed his diet to mostly organic natural foods.
While for a while, the MMR vaccine was also blamed for inducing autism, recent studies of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the George Washington University Center offer more concrete path to the treatment and diagnosis of autism. The ScienceDaily (April 8 2010) reports that the research point to specific genes cause the methylation of the brain in the frontal region and the cerebellum.
So while research is being done to overcome autism, a new theory emerged that takes autism to a new level of scientific inquiry. And it is an interesting one. It is called “The Intense World Syndrome.” The theory proposes that because of the changes of the environment the human genes adapted and mutated to produce hyper-plastic and hyper-sensory brains. The law of Epigenetics kicked in and it is changing our genetic structures. We are evolving to suit our environment. What this means is that the person suffering from autism learns faster and senses things more intensely than an ordinary person. The overload of sensory information and the hyper-plasticity is causing an overload, that causes the symptoms we have now associated with Autism. It is not that they feel nothing, they feel too much. It is not that they are not learning enough, they tend to learn too much about one thing that the rest are ignored.
A group of highly functioning autistic people previously labeled as having Asperger’s syndrome are verbal and are intensely intelligent and even creative. They are the most likely to cope with the condition, fall in love, get married and produce children. If we are now at the cusp of human evolution, these kinds of Autism may be the interim for a new kind of human. One whose brain is hyper-plastic and hyper-sensitive. Perhaps in the coming generations, these pioneers will learn to reshape the world to suit what is comfortable and pleasant for them. Perhaps more organic foods will be grown, more efficiently. Perhaps they will create new environments where the sounds you hear are calming and soothing. Perhaps careers will become entirely interest-based and highly specialized. And because they are not very socially concerned but are capable of strong bonds with a few, the population will decrease drastically. Can you imagine a world run by the children we strive to medicate today to become like us? A world of Mozarts and Einsteins of which we neuro-typical people of the 21st century can only dream of.So Autism is like awesometism,The people who have changed the world wonderfully, were not abnormals but AboveNormals...
