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What Is Autism?
Autism is a devastating neurological and biological disorder typically affecting children between the ages of 18 months to five years of age. Autism affects each individual differently and at different levels of severity. Some individuals with autism are severely affected, cannot speak, require constant one on one care, and are never able to live on their own. While others are less severe, can communicate, and eventually acquire the necessary skills to live on their own.
Typically autism affects individuals in four key areas:
- Communication (verbal and non verbal)
- Social skills
- Behaviors
- Learning
Autism is a full spectrum of problems that extends from the profoundly impacted child who rocks and bangs their head to the child who has minimal difficulty and may only be perceived as having a learning disorder or an oppositional personality. More and more we are coming to understand that autism is not so much a psychiatric behavioral disorder, but, instead, an inflammatory disorder. We now know that the impact of environment on a susceptible individual creates tremendous stress on the human system impacting biochemistry (especially sulfur metabolism, methylation, and transulfuration), immune function and gut permeability, to name a few. The impact on these systems allows "downstream" impact on the nervous system and shows itself as what we commonly understand to be "negative behaviors" and "learning difficulties". What we are finding, with more and more success, is that when a child with an inflammatory disorder has healing of the affected systems, the negative behaviors tend to improve and recovery begins.
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Common Autistic Traits
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