Looking for a miracle. Still.
Way back in the day, starting when Sam (now 15) was diagnosed, and continuing for about 7 years, we looked for a way to fix our boys. I know. I've blogged this to death. But we tried DAN! - vitamins, supplements. Avoided gluten and casein and foods with phenols. I rubbed them with pink cream (B12). I went to gazillions of meetings and spent thousands of dollars. We did ABA, VB, RDI. Bought Floortime videos. Bought books. Lordy, I still buy books. Too many for any one person to read. Unless I dropped out of the rest of my life. "Hun, keep the kids alive for the next couple months while I read all these books, mkay?" Then I turned to conventional medicine. We thought maybe Sam did his pacing and stimming because he was nervous, so we started Prozac. Lordy, turns out that was a mistake. Then stimulants. Okay, that helped some. Pacing and stimming go on, because they serve a purpose - they center h...