ASD GF/CF MSGAF WTF

Nothing makes you feel important like an acronym. (read: sarcasm)

I usually cringe at acronyms these days, because in the autism world an acronym usually masks yet another complex concept that I'll need to integrate into my existence.

Take the GF/CF MSGAF diet. That all means: gluten free/casein free, monosodium glutamate and aspartame free diet.

Here's the theory in the extremely simplified mE-version: gluten, casein, and msg all break down in the body into a protein that the autism brain misreads as morphine. (Aspartame is just evil and shouldn't be in anyone's diet.) Eliminating the offending foods from the diet will eventually detoxify the body and eliminate the addiction in the brain.

Rather than list the foods EJ cannot have on this diet (who has time for that?) I'll list what he can have:
meat
fruit
veggies

Considering EJ's diet consisted of only 7 foods prior to this, he is down to basically apples only.

Oh, and marshmallows.

Guilty Momscience

I wonder what the statistics are on how many autistic kids never had a 3rd birthday party.