Early Intervention pressured us to feed kids pudding

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I was just thinking about this the other day. We cancelled EI

services more than a year ago after trying them for about six months-

the therapies were making the kids worse. Their primary purpose

seemed to be in convincing us that there's " no epidemic, just

increased recognition " of a " genetic " disorder and that " thimerosal

doesn't cause autism " . This was the first I'd heard of an epidemic

and the first I'd heard of thimerosal (and why I began looking these

things up). I don't know about other state's EI services, but here

they're proselytizing these things, herding parents into tidy

ideological corners.

In the guise of " expanding " the twins' diet (they ate kale- what

more expansions could be made?) one of the therapists just wouldn't

let up trying to make us feed the kids pudding- commercial pudding

(gluten and dairy). At the time, the only dairy we'd give the

children was yogurt (everything they eat is organic) because they

would throw up if we gave them milk. As a result, our son was stuck

at a certain level of language delay and brain fog because of the

somewhat broken-down casein in yogurt. It wasn't that horrible but

wasn't great either. Had I given in to the pressure from this

therapist, he would have regressed before our eyes, as he did later

when milk and icecream were added to the twins' diet once they

stopped getting immediately sick from it.

Part of the reason I wasn't attempting to add milk into the twins'

diet sooner was the CNN broadcast a few years before, linking dairy

and gluten consumption with autistic symptoms. I understood nothing

about the link but it lurked in my mind a bit. Since these EI

therapists were getting their script from the NIMH website on autism-

which does a condescending nod to the GF/CF diet while

simultaneously denying that vaccines are causal- I have a very hard

time believing that this therapist didn't know that a dairy/gluten

(and preservative) packed dessert could potentially triggered

regression.

If she really didn't have an inkling of this, I think it's

inexcusable ignorance. I've wondered if it was her way of trying to

push our son over the edge so that he'd be determinably ASD and we'd

cave in to their cult-like pressure to put him in a program and/or,

her personal research into the effects of dairy on a borderline kid.

But nah. She was probably just an idiot. But think about the damage

they could have done to our children with just that one issue. It

makes me think that other of the therapies offered through some of

these public services could be detrimental in some ways. We learned

that some people in these agencies just wouldn't know the

difference.