Here are the root causes of autistic symptoms:

• Gestational or post-gestational toxic exposure(s)

• Brain injuries and other destabilizing traumas

• Impaired liver & kidney function

• Nutritional deficiencies, often paired with poor digestion

• Toxin build-up leading to emotional, physical, and mental symptoms

Here are the pathways to change:

• Love, truth, trust-building, and a caring community.

• Safe food and water, contaminant and additive-free

• Clean air and lots of the growing plants that
  produce it

• Non-toxic homes, workplaces, tools, clothes, and choices

• Support in removing the toxin load our bodies carry

• Repair of damaged body systems, including the brain

Autistic Symptoms:

• Unusual or absent social skills and social development

• Aversion to change, also manifesting as rigid rituals and routines

• Intense preoccupation with a limited range of interests, subjects, or activities

• Unpredictable mood swings and/or lack of empathy

• Repetitive movements and/or sounds

• Difficulty functioning in noisy or chaotic environments

• Significant delays in language development

• Impaired reading ability in the presence of normal vision and intelligence

• Persistent, intrusive thoughts, ideas, images, or impulses

• Preoccupation with rules, details, orderliness, and control

• Multiple motor and/or vocal tics

• Echolalia and/or coprolalia

• Developmentally unusual degrees of impulsiveness, and hyperactivity

• Lack of attention, organization, and prioritizing/sequencing ability

• Limited short-term memory, photographic memory, or other unusual remembering

• Painful and/or unstable digestion (IBS, diarrhea, constipation)

• Allergies and/or food and chemical sensitivities

Autistic Gifts:

• Sensitive and tuned hearing for acquiring languages and/or perfect pitch

• Precise differentiation and identification of colour and detail

• Heightened senses in general (smell, taste, and texture)

• Holistic conceptualization, design, and creation processes

• Highly imaginative and creative, especially in functional ways

• Monotropism, or a high degree of intensely productive focus

• Agelessness and culturelessness, socially connecting across barriers

• Enhanced organizational ability (finding the sense in the chaos)

• Thinking outside the box, making linkages others wouldn’t

• Innate truth sensor (body language, face, tone, words)

• Powerful desire to “make things better” in our chosen avenue

• Highly developed intuitive skills

• Very high intelligence paired with strong memory

• Determination