An Interview with an Autistic Ex User of CD

An Interview With an Autistic Ex User Of CD.

Posted by: Dominique Burnett

The interviewee wishes to remain anonymous.

 

I am in many Facebook groups which promote the Chlorine Dioxide (CD) protocol. Not to use it myself but to catch people using it on vulnerable adults and children. These children are usually autistic though we have seen CD touted to cure Down Syndrome, Cystic Fibrosis and Cerebral Palsy.

 

Parents are being told that parasites are causing their children’s conditions, mainly by a woman   named Kerri Rivera who has written a book called Healing The Symptoms Known As Autism. It is advised in the book to use a highly restricted gluten free casein free fruit free diet, and to administer CD orally and rectally in enemas.

 

Chlorine Dioxide is used for water purification, it is put into drinking water in minute quantities. 1 drop is enough to sterilise 1 litre of water. Its also used to bleach wood pulp and disinfect swimming pools.

 

Put simply, its bleach.

 

It was in one of these groups that I came upon a 21 year old Autistic man from Germany asking advice on CD use. He was advised by an admin named that he had already been told CD could cure him. The man in question was seeking help for what he believes are side “symptoms of autism,candida.” His symptoms, he says, are “brain fog and exhaustion.”

 

I messaged the poster and begged him not to continue using it. I told him that I too am Autistic and sent him links and videos to prove CD is bleach. Thankfully he listened and I went on to add him to

my support group.

 

I asked him a set of questions and have put his answers as given.

 

1. May I ask your diagnosis?
2. Autism.

 

1. Where did you hear of CD?
2. Internet, mainly several MMS groups.

 

1. Where did you buy it from?
2. From a chemicals online shop, sodium chlorite 25% and HCl 4%

 

1. Who advised you on it and told you it would work?
2. First time in a german mms group, many advocates, they said it could even cure autism

 

1. What effect did it have?
2. . Nothing positive. But i had to throw up just at the thought of having to take it

 

1. How many drops did you take?
2. . From 3x 1drop daily to 3x 8drops

 

1. How often did you take them?
2. Once in the morning, 2times at night

 

1. Would you ever advise use of CD for autism?
2. It had no positive effect on me. I definitely wont ever take that disgusting stuff again

 

1. In your opinion did speaking to me help you decide to stop taking CD?
2. Definitely.

 

To me this is a success story and the young man in question promised to go and seek medical advice. He will also be asking his doctor for further tests and looking into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

 

There are so many more autistic children and adults being abused which is why we need to get legislation in first the UK and then rest of Europe against the sale, promotion and use of Chlorine Dioxide bleach as a cure for autism.

 

Please sign the attached petition and complete the survey I worked on with The Westminster Autism Commission on fake cures and treatments.

 

Thank you.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WestminsterAutismCommmission

 

https://www.change.org/p/phillip-dunne-make-autistic-cures-illegal-in-the-uk

Broken Spectrum

Broken Spectrum

Posted by: Emma Dalmayne

Wonderful writing here by Jorge Vinson. Spoiler Alert: Sharing personal stuff… So, for a long time I’ve struggled with a lot of things in life. One the hardest struggles was figuring out where I belong, or where I fit… Never understood why I felt so different, or “not normal.” Why some called me weird or why my emotions (or lack thereof) were so difficult to deal with, and understand… it led me to a lot of really dark places… I found out it was because I’m on the Autism Spectrum (more specifically, Asperger’s Syndrome; even though it isnt called that anymore apparently) after having learned that I believed I found, or could potentially find that piece I felt I was missing. And it was rough at first, things got darker, and I became even more lost due to the criticism I had received, and the opinions I heard… like: “you don’t look autistic to me” or “you’re just antisocial, but definitely NOT autistic,” or “you are just depressed” and the best one “nah that’s definitely a misdiagnosis”… I didn’t know how to feel about anything. But now, I feel I’m at the beginning of self acceptance and understanding of why I am the way I am… and even though I hit a lot of speed bumps, I’m at the point where its time to be kinder to myself… I may be terrible at understanding people, their emotions, my emotions, and what I go through on the inside, and maybe I dont fit in anywhere, but I refuse to let it bring me down. Gonna make my own place to fit in… I made a self portrait to try and visualize what it was like to go through the ups and downs, thinking I was crazy at one point but it turns out…it is all me. And me is okay… I call it “Broken Spectrum” Not because I’m broken, or the ASD spectrum is broken…but because I want the stigma broken. Because they are all me.

 

By Jorge Vinson

Bogus Cures Flyer

Bogus Cures Flyer

Posted by: Rochelle Johsnon

Why Would Anyone Want to Cure Autism

Why Would Anyone Want to Cure Autism?

Posted by: Emma Dalmayne

As a teenager on the autism spectrum, I feel deflated when I stumble across articles centered around some ‘wonder drug’ that’s claimed to cure autism. One of my pet peeves is the fact that people treat autism as an illness or inferiority that needs to be cured.

 

My head fills with a variety of questions:

 

Why would anyone want to cure autism?

 

How can people be so hateful?

 

I believe it’s ignorant that individuals are more interested in curing us rather than taking the time to understand us and accept us for who we are. Autism is a neurological difference so it’s not a disease; this basic fact makes all the difference (well, to me it does).

 

We are wired differently to neurotypicals. If people took the time to understand that, maybe they’d actually accept that autism is not a disease.

 

Maybe then they’d embrace us and feel the need to accept us.

 

Maybe then they’d stop categorizing our difference as an epidemic and actually educate themselves on Autism rather than expect those on the spectrum to do it for them.

 

I understand that raising a child who is pre-verbal and finds it hard to cope with change and sensory input, in particular, can be challenging for the parents.

 

I acknowledge the everyday struggles these families must face, and I admire the parents who strive to advocate and do the absolute best for their children. Believe it or not, I was in a regression phase when I was diagnosed (at 3) but I now have learned to cope and to cater for any difficulties I may have.

 

Sure, I get it’s difficult for the families, but my sympathy ends when I find articles promoting a wondrous cure. It’s insulting for everyone on the spectrum that we’re viewed as inferior due to a difference in brain wiring (something we can’t control, something you can’t cure because it’s how we’re meant to be). We aren’t broken so we shouldn’t be fixed.

 

In my opinion, it’s child abuse to experiment on autistic children by shoving pills down their throat. When I see parents giving their children chlorine-based acids to ‘cure’ their condition, it makes me so sad. When the children start to deteriorate from these dangerous solutions, it annoys me when parents wonder what’s wrong when their children start defecating bowel lining.

 

Children aren’t guinea pigs and shouldn’t be exposed to these ‘cures’.

 

I understand that parents struggle to watch their children regress. I get that adults may feel down after they’re refused a job due to poor interview skills. Autism provides those on the spectrum (children and adults alike) with a variety of difficulties each day, but they’re doing their best to overcome them. There are various interventions already available to help autistics cope with day-to-day challenges…a cure definitely isn’t one.

 

If individuals stopped spreading false information on autism, I think parents wouldn’t feel influenced to take all autism “facts” at face value.

 

If people took the time to actually learn about autism, there wouldn’t be so much false information. Maybe individuals like Wakefield and Donald Trump wouldn’t be so influential on the general public (especially the parents who try these cures).

 

In a nutshell, we need people to educate themselves.

 

Maybe then the public wouldn’t be so easily influenced to experiment with these ‘cures’.

 

By Cerian Jones.

Eye Contact . . For the Recipients Validation Only

Eye Contact..For The Recipients Validation Only.

Posted by: Emma Dalmayne

Imagine if you will a quiet world, well ordered as long as everything has its place..

Imagine a warmth, cozy and comfortingly familiar. Your own warmth, just your own.

Now imagine headlights, bright and intrusive as in a winters night, burning and intense. They glare through the warmth and safety you have and push your eyes deep into their sockets until it’s unbearably painful.

Those headlights are someone’s eyes making intense eye contact with yours.

“Look at me!” The mouth beneath the eyes commands. ‘I don’t want to, it hurts…’ You think.

“This is all part of the problem you see?” The voice says to your parents who nod sadly, “Lack of eye contact, THIS we must stamp out. It’s a sign of non compliance, a sign of disregard. The child’s lost you see…?”

‘What?’ You think baffled, I’m right here!’.

Your parents sign a form giving permission for intense applied behavior analysis to begin.

Forty hours a week.

Forty hours of look at me/quiet hands? No more fluttering your hands in a language only you know, no more flapping your hands watching golden drops of happiness fly from your fingertips as you hum…no more angry bolts of lightening flying from your nails as you shake your hands so hard your wrists pound.

No more you.

I’ve realized something today.

Eye contact, who’s it for? It’s for the recipient. It’s for their own validation to reassure THEM that you know THEY exist. That you are aware THEY are speaking that you comply. That you acknowledge THEM.

It’s not about the child, it’s no benefit to the child to do something that in many cases is painful.

Intrusive.

It’s for them.

They don’t understand the avoidance of eye contact, the rapidly moving hands, the hum and the bounce of the feet.

The rhythmic rock you employ to comfort, a rock that’s universal if they would only look back to a parent rocking a babe, safety.

Predictability.

“Lines are forbidden”, intones the voice. “They are a sign of the child wanting to control the environment they are in! When he starts to make one mess it up immediately,” your parents nod. “Take back the control.” The voice says smugly.

‘But I need those!’ You think. ‘They help me make sense of, well everything. They make me safe, when everything else is changing I KNOW they are there!’.

The practice of eye contact is not for the child, society has the misconception that if your eyes are not raised when you or another is communicating then you have something to hide.

What if that something is your soul?

What if it’s all you have left in a world that’s to bright, loud and fast? It then makes sense that so many Autistic’s find peace in natural surroundings.

Bird song, rushing water and the swish of wind in the trees is surely preferable to beeping horns, bright reflections on glass and the mindless babble of a hundred conversations at once.

Once words leave a persons mouth where do they go? Do they keep going? As I’m sure many autists hear the echoes of words said long past.

Imagine.

As I know you can’t truly ever know what it’s like to be autistic, to be so comfortable in your own company that a day alone is heaven. Imagine not getting that time, that quiet.

Do not seek to validate yourself through your child, if they do not wish to make eye contact do not force it.

If you do you seek nothing but self service, for the validation that you exist is there in front of you.

Your child.

Validate them. Embrace and champion them. They are not there for your definition, they are there because you made them so.

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