Aidan’s Story
I guided my son in his healing journey from autism, and everyone should know that healing is real and healing happens. He was born into this world already hypersensitive. He had extreme colic, extreme, in dire pain, like, sobbing, wailing.
He didn’t have a formed stool. They were burning. His belly was distended. My pediatrician didn’t understand what that meant. She was just like, “Oh, it’s normal.” Like, everything is normal.
But It Wasn’t Normal
He started hand flapping at three months old. He would sit there and be like this all the time. And then he started having petit mal seizures around eighteen months.
The Lowest Low
My lowest low was watching him be sedated and be put into the MRI machine. At 18 months old, this tiny, tiny little thing and this huge, huge machine and just watching that from the window. It was just terrifying.
Getting a Diagnosis
We finally took him to the Yale Child Study Center, and he was diagnosed with autism. And I was told, then likely, he will continue to regress, and he will be institutionalized.
Obviously, I was like, that’s impossible. That’s not what’s gonna happen here. I was actually really happy when we got the diagnosis, and I know that sounds weird, but for me, it was some it was a point of departure to find out how to help him. It was like I finally had some foundation that I could dig into, and that’s what we did.
The Healing Journey
I think that was really key for me. The muscle testing allowed me to really determine from day to day what what were his needs and what what he was testing for and what he wasn’t testing for. Because, like, when you have that kind of extreme leaky gut, like, things change at a time. And other major game changer for us were the were the homeopathics. I mean, that was that was how we were able to get his immune system to actually work again.
Highest Moment
My high was when he officially lost his diagnosis. He went into the pediatrician for his eight-year-old checkup. He was sitting on the table, and she had his chart, and she was asking him all the questions, ticking him off. And I was standing next to her, and and she looked over at me and she’s you know, the diagnosis was there. And she’s looked over at me like this, and then she looked back at it, and she crossed it out, and then we both started crying. So it was pretty beautiful.
Aidan Today, in His Own Words
“I am twenty seven years old, and right now I am a PhD candidate in chemical engineering, and I’m working to finish that and graduate soon.”
A Piece of Advice
If I could offer a piece of advice to kids and parents, it would be to continue to have hope and just know that to everyone who has autism or a similar diagnosis is they’re very strong people.
And a lot of times they have trouble communicating, but, it doesn’t mean that they can’t enjoy life and and succeed in different ways. And that’s something that I think the world needs more of.
Don’t Give Up
I’m so proud of Aidan’s resilience and his fearlessness in really doing the work he needed to do to to be able to live in the world.
“I am so grateful for my family and everyone who helped me and the people who understood that and and didn’t give up on me.”
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