Zurama - Autistic by Injection
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Zurama's Bio
 

I am the mother of five children, the youngest Michael or Mickie as we like to call him, was diagnosed with Autism at 22 months old.After years of early intervention therapy, which didn't work. I learned through trial and error that he had underlying biomedical problems that culminated in Autism like symptoms, including, chronic digestive problems since the age of one, when he received the MMR vaccine.
With biomedical interventions, gfcf  and SCD diets, Mickie's body is starting to heal. Some of the most severe symptoms, head banging, night waking, self injurious behaviors are almost gone.
He lost all speech by the age of three. He is now 10 years old and has just started to say mama, for the first time in almost 8 years.














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Share a Photo: Mealtime
by Zurama on 06.28.08 - public - 109 visits

This is Mickie in 2000 during a feeding therapy session. His therapist at the time thought that if she put bananas all over Mickie's face and hands, he would eventually start eating.

Three years later, he was still not eating and on the verge of being fed through a tube.

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Zurama
Posted on Sun, 29 Jun 2008

I started forcing him to eat 6 years ago. It might seem mean to some people, but I couldn't bare the thought of him being feed through a tube. Now days he eats, though his food still has to be pureed, his appetite is huge now.

shannonj
Posted on Sun, 29 Jun 2008

What a brave boy....

Motherof4
Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008

Wow. I wouldn't like bananas on me, I'll bet Mickie didn't like it much either. Poor guy. With his gut problems, no wonder he didn't want to eat.

noaholiviaian
Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008

Strange thought process of the therapist. I honestly don't get where she was coming from or going to... it seems like a punishment more than a desenitization method. I'm sorry the last 3 years haven't been more productive on the food-front.

frogfoot1969
Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008

I don't know how he could stand having bananas on him. I get where the therapist was coming from, but typical things don't work on our kids, lol. I hope he is eating better now. He is so cute.

4muskateers
Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008

He looks like my grand babies at any table...it is so true how we take advantage of what children do normally, until we have a child who won't...But in his recent pictures he looks so handsome...recovery is coming Zurama, it really is, I have to believe. Love ~Diana~

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