I am Phyllis Wheeler, mother of two kids with Asperger's: "Mike" and "Shannon."
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Phyllis | January 29, 2008
Mike was acting really strangely yesterday. Actually, he was manic. It started right before lunch, he said, and didn’t have anything to do with anything he ate or did. By the afternoon when I picked him up he was as high as a kite. Couldn’t do his homework or focus on anything. [...]
Phyllis | January 25, 2008
Time to take stock after more than six months of stuffing supplements down Mike.
Costs: considerable at first under Dr. Amy Yasko, much less in the past 2-3 months under the applied kinesiologist chiropractor. The chiropractor was able to test whether a Yasko supplement is helping. She also suggested some new supplements that do [...]
Phyllis | January 21, 2008
Mike has had an occasional episode in the past several weeks. But he is doing far better than before.
The applied kinesiologist chiropractor is currrently working on getting rid of retained reflexes. These are reflexes that you had as an infant that your nervous system is supposed to grow out of, and hasn’t. One example [...]
Phyllis | January 15, 2008
I did find a supplement that helps me and might help others who are related to me, especially people in middle age or older. It’s P5P B6, a form of vitamin B6. Apparently many people with autism in the family can’t make B6 into P5P B6 (they lack an enzyme that does it). [...]
Phyllis | January 11, 2008
Might as well update you on me too. As I have mentioned, I have some big problems that came on some years ago at the beginning of middle age. They involve inability to eat any carbs without very bad consequences, including depression or fatigue. I gradually figured out how to live with [...]
Phyllis | January 11, 2008
Well, the applied kinesiologist chiropractor has now tested all Mike’s supplements, and then some. Instead of a list of 31 supplements from the Yasko protocol per Dr. Mullan, he now has 10. He also has five more supplements that are not on the Yasko protocol.
In case you missed it, the applied kinesiologist is [...]
Phyllis | January 4, 2008
Mike hasn’t hollered at me for a couple of weeks, I think. This is very odd. He is usually extremely ornery and argumentative when I tell him to do something.
He is also doing much better in school, but that is partly because he has an IEP now after mid-December and has an [...]