Message for Adults from Dr. Amy

July 31, 2006

HI All,

Those of you following Dr. Amy may be interested in reading this

message posted from her today. I have permission to post this.

It is a copy from her www.autsimanswer.com/forum.

under the new adult section

Sounds like she is working on a more specific program for " US "

CFSers and may be a bit more simplified than what I have been

following.

Not sure yet. We'll see!!

Best wishes, Sue T

Dear Members of the Adult Section of this Discussion group,

First, I want to give a warm welcome to all of you!

For a number of years I concentrated on adult, neurological issues

(ALS, MS, CFS, Parkinson's) before shifting my focus to the children

and autism. The program that we currently use for autism is actually

of variation of the program that was initially designed for adults.

I find that autism is actually more complex than some of the issues

I was addressing in adults, and as such the number of

supplements/herbs/RNAs that we are using for the program has grown

over time.

I plan to make time over the next few weeks to pare down the program

a bit so that it is more amenable to adults. In spite of the fact

that we will ultimately use a more limited program for adults I urge

you to take advantage of the information on this site that has been

written for autism. Please take the time to really acquaint

yourselves with the science. Please watch the DVDs, read the books,

use the search feature, read the posts and the rules of the site.

You are going to find that they are applicable and helpful to you.

Along those lines, we have had a recent incident that was a bit of a

misunderstanding between one of our new adult members and the way in

which this site functions. I do feel badly about this

miscommunication as anyone who has joined this site has done so

because they are looking for support and help. The idea is not to

create more stress but to relieve it! Perhaps if I include an

excerpt from the post I sent back to this adult it will help to

prevent any future misunderstandings…

....I think it is important for the group to understand that you can

expect personal interactions with me. I am very involved in helping

each and every person on our site to understand and implement the

program. Due to the number of people on the site, it is impossible

for me to respond to every person who posts a lengthy detailed

background. This is not out of a lack of caring, simply due to the

fact that I am one person and we have over 2000 people on the site

all of whom need and want the kind of personal response and overview

that a lengthy history requires.

I try to address this in several ways, so that individuals on our

site know that I am involved and that I do care about each and every

one of you. First, we do limit the number of emails that I answer

daily to 10 per day. These are picked by and I have complete

trust in her judgment on the choices. I donate my time to answer

these 10 daily and that can take several hours of my time each day.

I also put personal comments on each and every test that is ordered

through my office. I spend all day Tuesday and often times into

Wednesday writing on each and every test. These comments are then

emailed to you by my office staff. As with my answers to email posts

there is no charge for my time for comments (there is a charge for

the test itself). I also comment on nutrigenomic test results, hand

writing comments on these lab reports.

When we first started the chat room I was able to make the time to

respond to long, personal posts for everyone. If I were to do that

now for some, it would take away from my time to do what needs to be

done to help a larger group. Rather than picking and choosing who I

will choose to make personal individualized comments to, we draw the

line in the sand so that I am free to answer the daily emails,

comment on the tests, comment on the nutrigenomics as well as

characterize additional SNPs to move this field forward. I have

closed my personal practice in order to be able to donate all of

this time.

Finally, my inability to respond online to that type of a long

involved personal history is one of the rules of the site. It would

not be fair if I were to violate that rule for one individual; then

each of the other 2000+ individuals would feel that I should do that

for them, and clearly that is simply not possible....

In case any of our new adult members have not yet had a chance to

read the rules they are limited and simple. We are basically here to

support each other on an emotional level as well as sharing the

science. For this reason I have a zero tolerance policy for

negativity. That is actually my strictest rule! We try to share the

science and " pay it forward " . You can expect personal interactions

from me on a regular basis as well as love and hope for health,

wellness and recovery for everyone on this site.

Finally please remember that this is not a quick fix one supplement

solution. It is a program. It works best if you take the time to

understand it. As I write in the GARs….read it, learn it, live it.

With love and hope and a warm welcome to the adults who have joined

our site,

Dr. Amy

August 1, 2006

I sure would like to follow this link, but like so many I receive from this list

it doesn't work. Even after I remove the period at the end.

Help?

Adrienne