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Hello, I have a few questions upon reading this please, if you could help me to understand it. The blood test to check the levels of metals in the system, have any of the parents or carers had their childrens blood tested. Is this a given reason to suspect heavy metal poisoning. How could you tell or know if your child had Autism or a Heavy Metal poisoning if their bodies don't excrete metals. There are metals in many things from deodorants to foods and possibly chemicals sprayed on vegetation. Is the ecosystem poisoning our children on top of the multiple injections required by law of a child to have before commencing school or preschool. Have any of your thoughts on this changed since this was discussed a few years ago. I work in early child care and it raises lots of questions among parents whether to immunise or not. If you could share your views about this today, that would really help me with some assignments. Regards Enissa

Hello You just described many of the problems stressing her out. We are seeing the medications her specialist put her on as not resolving any of these problems except stopping the panic attacks which are being managed with the medication. She won't can't leave the house alone since the seizures and keeps putting off the EEG aura's prevent her doing the trip. It is a long journey by bus and this is something her doctor needs to be told. The coloured lenses are her only hope to manage at college this year. Alexis what you described caused a life long problem she is no longer able to mask. As there seems to be aura's triggering a chain reaction of events. I won't go into detail as they are upsetting. Thank you Alexis for your assistance. This is something she wants her doctor to do more tests for for sure. Mia

oh my if only she knew she was Autistic too her health may be so different today. She always put everyone before herself. Thanks Mia x

Hello Thank you very much with your helping with my enquiries. She is getting full analysis so we will know more as suggested. Just another question with coloured lenses if you have them would you please explain what it was like for you before and after having them prescribed. Your experience will help to understand their benefits. Thanks again for your assistance it helps a lot. Mia 0

Hello :-) When I was little I remember hearing it pronounced as Az burger for fun. This was how we play with word's to remember a name that was difficult to remember. An easy way to remember names like Monnfrooy is to say Moon fry so Az burger helped with As purr ger. As I know they say it in Australia. Hard g now people in our circles use soft g I guess by preference. Mia

Hello I have been really busy so sorry I haven't replied sooner than this. We agree the EEG may help ease her as she beleives she is having aura The doctor is happy to visit her at home as everytime she goes to leave the house she feels she can't breathe. I think Scotland is on her mind if all else fails too. Mia

Thank you for the message but could you explain this situation to me thanks Mia

Hello I know some of you may be able to explain this to me better than what I can. My mum has epilepsy unconfirmed yet but also has visual and auditory processing disorder both as well as Autism. Should she seek help for these through her GP or go to an eye hospital. From your experience or knowledge, what steps to helping her. 'Please', she is zoning off a lot too. Noise can cause distress. like her head is a washing machine. thanks Mia

I think that if they allow a child to have a book for a whole year they should expect this is going to happen. If they want the books to be maintained, they should make them keep the books at school and not allow them to take them home. If you carried a library book around for a year of course it is going to get damaged. I think it is really silly, that they operate in this way. With our textbooks at school, we have to buy them ourselves or through the school or bookstores. It should be their problem, not yours. Mia

Hello, I have been lurking but not posted much for a while. I am doing a traineeship in Child Care and go to college one day a week. I have been witnessing many special needs children in the centre, and so may be looking around here from time to time, to get a better understanding. We have ASD in our family so this has been helpful it making some recognition. So hello again. xx

Hello, I am from Australia, only just saw this here. Well lets do a reverse here, you can have our summers for your winters, is that a deal. It is still winter here, but, I think our weather system needs to be changed because our spring sometimes starts in the middle of August, and some states in Australia don't actually have a spring. They just go from winter to summer. Is the weather there really strange at times too. Has the European weather got hotter or colder there, than you can recall. Where is everyone from??

Hello, I believe he should be allowed to Rest in Peace, and his children and family time and space to mourn his loss. Like Princess Diana - this life destroyed them both. What life is it being famous - it is just a job but 24 four hours seven days a week someone is looking to make a buck to discredit you for anything and everything. My mum was a big fan and was in a tv show dancing promoting one of his songs when she was a teen model and Boz Scaggs so she had lots of memories of the Off the Wall era. Rock with You we have a movie of her on television, a Australian program similar to 'Rage' her days of fame, are now priceless to us. She remembers a sweet warm Michael Jackson who was very shy, and possibly the resultant drugs was a cocoon to protect him. The best songs we love are The River Jordan - will you be there? also in school and church we sang and did a play to 'Heal The World' our end of year six production also included his music, I'll be there, a very sad song and story - on salvation. My mum in her modelling days did lots of fashion parades in centre stage malls one in the QVB Sydney, MLC centre Sydney and Bondi and many others for Spring/Summer and they used a lot of Enigma and Michael Jackson for these - The Way you make me feel and Black or White, Don't Stop till you get enough, and of course Beach Boys songs. Sorry have to rush, but yes, he will be missed in Australia he was very popular for his song and dance and will be hoping that his children are safe and looked after. Mia

Hello Chris, Thank you, for your advice. I read somewhere bright red, isn't anything serious like cancer so I am relieved about that. Enissa

Hello, Does anyone know when there is blood in the bowel, whats safe and whats not, like enough to be present in the bowel of the toilet, and bright red. Is this serious or is this something minor. What would you do? Has this happened to you, and if it has did you nned to visit the doctor. Thanks Mia

There are two in my family with Autism, my older brother and my mum. My brother is into I.T. Forensics & History Swimming and cross training some days four hour drills. Wants to be in the army lost 30 kilos in the hope of getting in. Mum, is very creative, Creative & Fine arts Mathematical can work out formulas and calculations within a second while I am still trying to work it out on paper she can answer it just looking at it in seconds. She struggles with anxiety a lot and has used CBT to control it but has to take medication full time for it, but swimming, piano, gardening, Fine Arts painting sculpture, we freak when there is a council collection because she brings home loads of wood pieces to make sculptures, this is something she does with college, my brother also likes to have a go too, they both are into music big time, so am I. So Music, Arts, Maths, IT, physical stuff. Mia

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Hello, Panic Attacks are really awful and medical help must be sought to get it under control and to find out what is causing it because, they can become very unmanageable and dangerous. Checking auditory too as it is not something thats easy to solve. Mia

Hello, sorry I was away and just had a moment to come back here. Highlighting your points here baddad Having been away and had more time with my mum to talk about this, she is in the mindset that, sometimes, when someone is grieving and are trying to make sense of everything when there has been a tragedy like this in the family, she feels even though most would see it as a con which it often is, there is something, comforting, even though you know it is bogus, to feel like you have some moment of connection with a loved one, in say out of the ordinary day to day chaos, something gives you a moment of connection with a lost loved one, a sense of peace and healing comes to the pit of your stomach, and a page in a chapter is able to be written so that chapter can be closed. Truth or rubbish, its just having the sense of feeling a last farewell or being told of a stage a person is in this transition, something is better than nothing in the healing, and mum thinks it helps them close that chapter of their lives that was once so huge and now so lost. So if it helps someone complete a proccess of grieving and making sense of some blank spots, it maybe a good thing as long as you let it go and not be ruled by it. If it is a step forward or a way forward, something positive has been achieved if it is bringing about healing, and acceptance and peace. Thanks for opening your experiences and thoughts and knowledge. We agree, this door must be closed and the key tossed away. Going back to these sorts of people from here on would be madness. Whats done is done, and now she has said no more. It would just inflame things all over again like you all say. Thanking you all, Mia <'>

Hello, Looking closely at their pictures and their ages it makes me think they all took ten years off their real ages. There is no way they are as young as they say they are. Or do Aussies look much younger because of the weather being kinder. Mia

Is it safe to say, if I stand way over here, she can't lecture me. Kathryn, after carefully reading your stories about mashed potato I think I would be gagging if I ate your mashed potatoes <'> You need to try my mum's recipe, I think you will realise, all these years you have been using the wrong potatoes and did they not tell you you are supposed to wash the brown dirt off as you peel the potatoes instead of put it straight in the water to boil. runs to hide. Our mash is exquisite, please, try. Call it mash Oz style. Mia

Thank you bid you have a good point there. I am rushing to pack to spend four days with family interstate and I would really enjoy talking with you about this and Autism, but, I don't want to respond in a rush. I will be home on Monday and will pop in then because it has been helpful and interesting. Thank you Mia

Thank you Tally, and thank you all, for sharing your views about this. Its my fault I failed to mention this lady is not like the type you see at the local community markets or random adds in the papers. She in fact is held in high esteem and its easy to jump on this from that angle, however, the Compassionate Friends program my aunt attends gave this recommendation and is highly respected in her field. But not the field of Quackery, as I quickly jumped to this conclusion. Just upon the feedback we have at hand. But you are very correct Tally, if it is stirring emotions as stro ng as my mums, the family should have the commonsense to realise how damaging this is to mum's health, especially being made to sit and listen to a cd like this. It is very damaging and I do agree, this is not right for our mum not like this. On so many levels it is wrong, but, on so many levels, it is right, but only if you are prepared to seek this information. In my mothers case the timing was very bad, but our aunt thought she was doing my mum a favour, but she was very vulnerable and in a fragile state at this time - well, they all were and still are as you say, and it may have positive resolutions when the timing is right. I think the only way to move forward here is for my mum to see this lady herself, by herself, let her decide, but I will definitely be tagging along maybe out of personal interest more than anything else. Just to understand if there is some benefit to healing families that have had such a tragic loss like this. It is a very tender subject but there is a lot of confidence in this professionals credentials I have been corrected. I would appreciate, if there are others that have had a experience on this level please pm me how it helped you. I would be really grateful to understand. It is a very private situation you may not feel comfortable discussing on an open forum, but, your personal thoughts or experiences on the 'process' and how it helped you or your family could really help here. Thanks again in sharing and the humour too, you need to maintain a sense of humour I guess. Mia

Hello, Its good to see people are as sceptical as I am because this was the attitude we have too. This is the thing, I am trying to make sense of and wonder, if this woman was a prank, how did she manage to name my mum in full. Just talking it over with mum we keep coming back to, how could she know personal aspects of my mother that were so close to the core or truth. She may have done some research on the funeral notice to see my mothers name there. My aunts wording in her funeral notice is the only thing that could give her the name. She didnt guess my mums name, she said it straight out, and my aunt was listening but cautiously didnt give her anything to draw conclusions with. She knew my mother and her troubled life and mentioned her social anxiety with men. That she had trouble knowing how to go about finding the right man. All this is truly to do with my mum's Autism. How do you ignore this information which my aunt talked to my mum about when they sat down and listened to it. My mum was furious with the psychic and my aunt for feeling she had to point out the obvious problems my mum was facing. This is why my mum, was sobbing really, because when she heard it first instance she was just really angry, but, something in this music video linked the story of her spirit being around my mum trying to be with my mum, and this is what had us both in tears because, what the psychic was saying was in actual fact completely true about mum, and the key thing to mum realising her connection to this and Autism. It was after hearing this account of her personality and my aunt agreed, my mum was too shy. Anyway, poor mum, has been thinking about all this more so than she should have, and i think it ultimately pushed her to seek a diagnosis for Autism, because thats when the alarm bells went off for her, she had a real problem interacting with males and females, its wasn't just men. We think it really brought all the past flooding back for her. So is this a good thing or a bad thing. In the end, it did help mum face her true anxieties she was suffering with in silence. So even if this woman is a con, some good came out of it for mum, and she would not have taken account of it, if she hadnt mentioned my mums name straight out. She went on about my mum for about five minutes because she was worried about my mum and that she had really suffered all her life. Go figure.... a bit hard to push under to carpet, or just coincidence I guess. As you said Baddad, they are well trained to talk about how to make Jelly wobble, well she managed to make my mum wobble and my aunt and nanna they were all in tears when they listened because they all said this is mum. We believe some have some gifts as you see on some of those shows when they are put to the test, and this particular women, just had a good day perhaps or as you say Baddad, could read my aunts face and ran with it. We were not there so its hard to know if my aunt gave some facial expressions that she picked up on. I don't know where I stand on this now. Mia

Hello, I am not really sure where to post this, but it is Off topic from Autism. I was watching this video the other day which I often do with my interests of singing, and became so amazed at the similarity of this artist singing to one of our relatives that passed away almost a decade ago. I had to show the video to my mum to see what she thought, because you would never believe it until you see it how similar she is to my mum and her twin. Well, sometimes things do happen for a reason and this particular time we believe there was a message in it for my mother, and it was only in watching this video, did the penny drop, that there was some truth to what the Psychic had been saying to my aunt about her deceased daughter and my mums connection to her and her sister. The Psychic came out with the most amazing story about my mum and her twin that died. As I said my aunt sought this lady or Psychic through a group called compassionate friends to help her to feel a connectedness with her deceased daughter. Many have found healing by going through this process to get some guidance. I hope I don't upset anyone discussing this here. I guess perhaps, its more a curiosity of experiences. The women came highly recommended by people that belonged to a support group called compassionate friends. So there was this feeling of trust. About a year ago, my aunt played the recording of the session, and the Psychic actually mentioned my mum by name, she actually crossed over an issue that we now know to be a awareness of my mother having Autism and a host of other things that apparently my mums twins spirit is around her because she feels the love there and with her cousin. But her spirit isnt happy around her mum because of the anger still there around her death with the mother and father. So this video of my surprise released a lot of information about that psychic reading and at first my mum was really angry because she never believed in this sort of thing, but something truly strange happened today with watching this movie and the message of the psychic finally came out. Word for word, what was said on the Psychics tape hit my mum like a big whoosh of information and she just sobbed, but then, she smiled and was walking around the place like someone had given her a wonder drug, the video, the reading tape, all spoke to my mum about a dilemma in her love/health/relationships and it was all revealed on the cd, but this video, made something click, like dejarvue.... now I am totally into it because, I also can see its relevance and am totally thrilled that this can happen. But as well as this, it was the timing of it all, my mum was locked in a vacuum of uncertainty over a couple of issues in her life, and its like someone just gave her the lottery ticket she had been waiting for. Answers to some close to the core issues especially to do with her Autism. Now, on top of this, I am worrying if I have caused her any harm, because it may have stirred up a lot of emotions, but, it has too be good don't you think. Has this ever happened to any of you? Mia