The recent campaign by Polly Tommey on Facebook
There is a lot of people who are saying that AUTISM can be cured on this campaign Facebook page, I disagree Autism is a developmental condition, Autism cannot be cured by supplements, or any form of treatment, its really upsets me as a person with the condition that some parents are giving the wrong message out to other people.
The FACT remains is Autism is not curable, there are over 500,000 people in the UK affected with Autism, if there was a miracle cure don’t you think by now all these children and adults with asperger syndrome and Autism would have been cured by now.
My twin is 35 years old he has never communicated he can’t, he is simply locked in his own world, do you think if there was a cure I would have give him the magic pill or supplement by now to cure his Autism  from Autistic to none Autistic!
Some of the  leading expert’s on Autism say that there is “no cure”, so why are these parents telling others there is this magic cure with supplements, and biomedical intervention will cure their autistic child, they are blinding other parents beliefs in a cure to Autism and this is so wrong.
Kevin Healey
Autism Campaigner UK
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAutism is not curable with pills. However, autism is curable because it’s caused by environmental factors. To cure autism, you need to treat them with multiple treatment modalities to balance the brain hemispheres as well as eliminating food/chemical sensitivities. This type of treatment is not available with mainstream or traditional medical model. There is no cure for autism when the parents continue to stimulate their children’ left brain. There is no cure for autism when the parents continue to feed their children with gluten and casein based diets. Hope this will help some of the parents. Think about hope instead of hopeless.
Regards,
Vincent Do
While autism is not really curable if you want to use that term. There are diets, vitamins and therapies that can make a drastic difference for many people with autism, and in fact, many of them can be somewhat cured if you want to call it that so that their autism is no longer noticable by others. However, cured is really too strong a word since they will still have some effects of it for life. In many cases, I believe this is what the parents mean.
I believe some forms of autism are nearly intracatble, at least by any currently known approach, but some forms that are marked by regression with certain disease features and states are very treatable. Many in this second group can be “cured”. They can then be called cured or in remission which looks the same as cured. If some of the biological problems start again then they may begin to show autistic features or revert to a new state of autistic expression. Some who accept this and have witnessed those that are “cured” are open to the idea that these might fairly be separated into different labels, but the regressive type are being labeled autistic so they are called cured when their lose their autistic features. Some parents try the biomedial route with little or no improvement others find substantial or complete changes. Let’s stop saying since I did not see anything improve for my child or themselves that others are mistaken. There are complexities here. I think the label is right for both groups and that some autistics will see partial benfits as their systems have stronger genetic components and others are more assaulted by a disease state begun by a trigger or triggers or by a perfect storm of conditions. So, as to what the first two psters say I think they are mostly correct except the imprecise nature of what cured may mean to different people.
I am a parent to 6 four are on the spectrum
I also have autism
I have bene looking at these facebook groups today and I am disgusted.
I have made some facebooks groups myself
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Autism-Is-Not-Curable/113178375379689
http://www.facebook.com/spectrumshellx?ref=profile#!/pages/AUTISM-DOES-NOT-NEED-TO-BE-CURED-IGNORANCE-DOES/103834042992692?ref=mf
I have also vented my spleane on there groups which did not go down well LOL
Autism is not a disease… it is a description of a group of symptoms that manifest themselves in a similar fashion that we all lump together as autism. my 4 year old boy has autism. we have done the diet, the supplements, the ABA, the therapies and continue to do so. some people have success because the (as yet unnamed) particular “condition” that their child has was able to be treated by whatever mode they treated with. however since most approaches use multiple treatments at the same time, nobody has any idea what works and does not work. i read one study that seemed to infer (as a possibility) that some people with autism EITHER produce excess propionic acid when they eat milk products OR are more sensitive to it (or both) and this contributes to their condition. but in the end nobody knows until research starts identifying causality and we can start knocking off all the different “conditions” and start identifying them by actual medical diagnoses, and not under a larger mental/psychological description.
and to the person saying that it is not a disease and we don’t want a cure… i am sorry but i disagree. while we need understanding (just like we do for MD and other CURRENTLY incurable diseases) this is not a condition that my son was born with. as was appropriately pointed out, my son lives inside a shell that he can see out of, but he sees in a different way, it is our ability to pierce that shell where the bigger issues lie. and the cure will pierce that shell. make no mistake, i do not want the magic pill that makes him like everyone else, i want to know how to help him shrink the bubble down so that he sees and hears the rest of us all the time.
There has been much in the way of empirical studies on the development of Autism. It has been shown to be (In very abrupt terms) a developmental, cognitive difference in brain activity.
There is no such empirical evidence to support any dietary benefits, other than to provide ‘a balanced diet’.
There is still much research to do, however, Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is absolutely on the front lines of achieving marked behavioural improvements in children/adults with autism. Be sure to seek consultation from a registered BCBA consultant.
Dear Dr. Vincent,
I talked with you before for bringing my child to your place, but now you don’t accept any patients anymore, please your kindness help me to guide me through treatments. I am so lost now, I went to different clinics and doctors, those people I feel they don’t know what they are doing and so not care about any treatment to improve. I try to reach you many options, through your phone,email. But no respond, please if you see this massage, reply back through my email, I really need your help! Like you always said, beside you no one els would do the treatments to improve so much! Thank you so much! God bless you!
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