Posts Tagged ‘High Functioning Autism’

I get a lot of questions about how I knew Dakota had autism and when did we see the first signs. Honestly I don’t remember how the word Autism ever came up. I don’t remember if my husband said something to me that caused me to search Autism. I really don’t remember.

When Dakota was little he use to bang his head a lot for no reason at all. That became a concern to use so we brought it up to our pediatrician at the time. We had him checked many times for an ear infection and most of the time he didn’t have any. So we just chalked that up to maybe a behavior of some sort.  Read more...

Well I have been waiting to write my update and I finally heard from the neurologist. The EEG was normal and actually looked good and there was a possibility of Dakota being weened off his seizure medicine. Well since he had a seizure that’s not an option anymore. They are raising his seizure med now. We will have another EEG in a year.  Read more...

I wanted to share this with all of you it is one of the best videos I have seen. I went on a mission today catching up on my blog reading and on another autism site they asked that we each share this. Being that Dakota has autism I am sharing it too.

autism reality from Alex Plank on Vimeo.

Well I never got a chance to have a meeting with the teachers this week as Dakota’s teacher, her little baby was really sick with a fever. So we rescheduled it for next week and it should be interesting.

Our meeting is about bullying, planning what to do the rest of the school year if he is sick alot, homework, and what ever other issues come up.  Read more...

I am doing a 4 part series to this on Family Foodies blog for the intern ship I am in. I would really like to hear feed back on this. So please take a look at the first part of the article I have written titled Autistic Kids and Food: Does Food Affect Kids, Really?

Part 2: Autistic Kids and Food: A Link To Food Intolerance