It’s not called Asperger’s anymore, it’s now considered part of the autism spectrum. Anyway, my seven year old is on the very high functioning end. His reading IQ alone is 127. We do hyperbaric chamber therapy for him. It works great for his autisic “quirks.” His gluten free diet helps, as does the addition of homemade bone broth.
Two things here. First, David Geier isn’t a doctor, and should have been prosecuted for practicing without a license. Second, Dr. Mark Geier lost his license, and rightfully so, over this nonsense.
I have a 27 y.o. son with Aspergers (which term I will continue to use) and I have never heard of Lupron therapy for people on the autistic spectrum, nor have I ever heard of inappropriate, uncontrollable sexuality being a problem for young people with Aspergers. Violent behavior is a not a feature of Aspergers alone but may occur with a co-morbid disorder like bipolar disorder.
And while children with Aspergers may be bullied, bullying is not the cause of their impaired social ability, which may show up years before they go to school.
My own son had inconsolable colic from two weeks to four and a half months, an unusual lack of recognition of motor milestones like rolling over - he did them on time but did not attempt to do them again and again like other babies, a loss of pre-speech babbling at seven months and a loss of eye contact at eight months, and strange fascinations (lint, light switches) beginning at nine months.
No bullying, no significant interactions with other children, and no doctors forcing a stereotyping diagnosis on a child - I was a mother saying something is wrong a year before his pediatricians said, yeah, maybe there is.
Anyone who says autism does not exist is either ignorant or a liar or both! Ignorance I can forgive for a little while, but the outright liars I rank among the kooks that say the Holocaust never happened, or that man has never been to the moon. Why deny such proven things?
“Autism” is a broad term covering a spectrum of mental disorders that range in severity from mild to severe. There are different types of those disorders, but there is often some commonality recognizable among them. My autistic son is 34 years old, high functioning and has never required medication of any kind. However, he exhibits some of the classic signs. During those 34 years I have informally studied other autistics to see how they compare. Autism is real! Autism seems like a recent phenomenon, but perhaps it has always existed and now the symptoms have been better recognized and classified. Perhaps once they belonged to an even larger group simply called idiots. Or perhaps something in the environment has affected more people than in the past. Whatever it is, it exists.