Curing Autism Together

Our autistic daughter's langage keeps progressing spontaneously by taking Citicoline & Ginkgo Supplements

Our autistic adult daughter Anna keeps progressing in her language at a faster rater than in the previous few years since I've been adding Citicoline and Ginkgo supplements to her diet.  We're still doing Duo Lingo Chinese language program (just passed day 1,000 straight) and this was very slowly helping her progress (maybe a new or unexpected statement once a month or so) to now one a week, perhaps more.  I stopped writing some of them down but decided I should go back to it, because later I just forget that she said altogether and why not document the changes?

Yesterday our daughter said "I have options" when she was talking about taking a shower or a tub bath, "options" being abstract as a concept and nothing I could teach her - she stopped leaning language at the level that could been seen or done as an action, and an "option" is something I've never heard her spontaneously say.  

About 10 minutes ago Anna said "Let the juicing begin" as she started the process of juicing celery (which we both drink for eczema reasons - see Medical Medium's books for more info), almost under hear breath to herself, her back to me as she took the lid off the juicer to put clean celery in the top.  She wasn't talking to me but said a fanciful expression spontaneously to herself, mostly.  Such a shock!  An autistic person who almost never says a new uncoached expression is a person recovering and making new connections.  

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Hope this helps others!

Could Ginkgo or Citicoline Supplements help autistic people to talk? Maybe in my daughter

My daughter Anna, now 22, just restarted Ginkgo supplements (gummies) after more than a week after we ran out.  On Jan 23rd 2023 (about 3 weeks ago) I posted my daughter, who isn't initiating new word with any frequency outside those I'm still teaching her, which still flabbergast me what she doesn't know - most words other than those we use with some frequency she has never picked up or half of what they mean - I'll have to do a post about this some time, but it's stunning how abnormal very affected autistic people's brains are working - hers anyway - I'm pretty sure I have high functioning autism but could pick up new words, not so for her, unless I'm doing ABM lessons with her which I haven't done more than a few all years. However during a discussion on Feb 14th evening about whether she had urgency to use the bathroom recently because I just had (I won't go into detalls as that's a bit "TMI") she said she had and I remember her saying "I had to skidaddle to the toilet/ bathroom [or to use the bathroom/toilet]" - I can't remember the end of the sentence exactly, the prior day because of also needing to use the bathroom/toilet urgently.  The key was her suddently adopting and using the verb "skidaddle" after rarely using a new verb neither I nor anyone in our family who she interacts with at this point ever uses, out of the blue.  As in the prior post, she didn't even notice she had used a new verb, which I assume she heard modeled in use by a prior Son-Rise playroom staff I hired/trained, by a video on youtube, or a Seinfeld show which she watches with us as a family and which she laughs periodically with great delight at the silly physical humor and delivery of some lines she understands. 

I suspect the combination of the Citicoline and Ginkgo supplements are possibly prompting this apparently spontanteous recovery that is not so spontaneous as to its impetus and origins.  I also suspect both may be required daily to generate this mental improvement as this is what I've seen (details below).

Back several weeks ago when I did the last post, Anna was taking both Citicoline (not a typo), a form of choline that can convert to Choline itself and then Betaine to help the liver pathway, good for those with heavy metals or other poisoning or viral issues, or the brain pathway - I think into phosphatidyl choline or "PC", good for people with brain issues like dementia and perhaps - I'm positing - autism, plus a Ginkgo gummy - good to increase circulation in the brain - to help prevent/improve dementia or help cleanse the brain of contaminants as are suspected in contributing to autism.  The Ginkgo she started taking near the beginning of December and Citicoline she started taking at the beginning of January, which makes me think if only one were more effective and I didn't notice a big burst of improvement during December, perhaps the Ginkgo wasn't as effective as the one we started few weeks before we saw that sudden burst of new language the third week of January when we started Citicoline.  On the other hand, when we ran out of Ginkgo several weeks ago not long after that burst of language, around two weeks ago, based on my reordering at least a week after the Ginkgo ran out on Feb 9th, which she only restarted taking after it was delivered this past Sunday the 11th which we may not have started until the next day, Monday the 12th, two days before she started saying a new verb yesterday on Feb 14th, my daughter continued taking Citicoline daily for those interim several weeks plus or minus up to a week without any spontaneous use of new verbs, which would be consistent with the Citicoline not working.  A better conclusion might be that both supplements work together synergistically or at least additively enough to produce a spontaneous recovery in an improvement that is at once small but significant compared with prior spontaneous adoption of language - particularly use of verbs, verb tenses and time terms which she's really stuck on now and has been for years.   

I'll post more as I figure out if these supplements continue to help.  Thank you for reading! : )

Last night's ABMNM® (Anat Baniel Method® Neuromovement®) Lesson Triggers Our Autistic Daughter to Cook a New Dinner Dish on Her Own & I'm Working on Patenting a Game

Today my autistic daughter who is now shockingly an adult (hard to believe how long I've been trying to help her recover!) prepared a new dish for dinner on her own, not notifying us, not asking for permission, help, or even for me to taste it at the end, which has NEVER happened!  This is new and it jolted me into writing another blog article even if it isn't polished or lacks pictures.  The truth is the ABMNM lessons work to advance her mental organization and development profoundly although you never know how it'll manifest itself, as in this case, in her individual ambition and drive to make the sauce for Macaroni and Cheese like the one from Whole Foods hot bar.  I did once recently, maybe a month ago, try to make a cheese sauce, but she did it differently than we did.  

I'm a ABMNM® practitioner and decided to take my daughter through the series of movement lessons I was trained on during the Anat Baniel Method® Neuromovement® Practitioner Training one by one.  By "movement lessons" I mean the directed "mat work" form of lessons called "Transformational Movement Lessons" or "TMLs", where we can both benefit physically and mentally, as opposed to the other kind where you work on someone else on a mat or table ("Functional Synthesis" or "FS" lessons), and mostly if not only the person being "worked on" derives the benefit, but I need to get smarter and more flexible too, so we do the TMLs not the FS's. I have to do these trainings in segments because they're really long for her - often single lessons are an hour long since I have to stop and help her with the instructions often, plus the cleanup of our apartment to lay down a bunch of mats in our great room takes extra time.

We also have a baseline progress as the result of multiple ABMish, neuroplasticity, cognitive and other challenges throughout her days that I throw at her whenever there are activities I think would be stimulating for her, such as having her learn to use her left hand to brush her teeth and to pick up things on the floor with her feet (generating neuroplasticity), learning new activities like her learning how to help me use the serger today to repair a reusable grocery bag, and of course Duo Lingo, where we've been learning how to speak and write Chinese for about a year and a half (we're on day 582) which is helping her slowly progress linguistically as we practice various phrases in chinese she never used to say in English, such as when things are supposed to happen like using a phrase "yesterday morning" in sentences spontaneously.  I have her close her eyes and listen to the chinese phrases to listen for words and break them apart into meaninful chunks, something she stuggled with more before I started doing lessons with her, which admittedly has been sporadic up til now.   She and I are always better at Chinese on days we do lessons and several days to a week later, and so I have started making time in my week to try to do a lessons more often for all of our sakes.  I'm confident in the long run she can fully recover if I keep offering lessons and ways to apply them cognitively. 

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I don't want to force myself to write too much as length as I used to nor to edit extensively or I just won't do it!  I know at this point!  But a bit on my journey - I'm trying to patent a physical & internet-based versions of a novel word game, something I've never done before.  Turns out patenting software, games and processes, as well as including both the physical and software form of games together - all features of this patent - are among the very hardest things to successfully patent for a variety of reasons but I undertook this to help protect the intellectual property of the software game we'll be releasing later this summer from copycats.  I finally got the abstract done, then realized it needed some tweaking and am now in the rewrite process, which is time consuming but really necessary.  I started on the Summary about the history of word games leading up to our product, but took a break from it to finish the Abstract as mentioned.  Wish me luck!

I'm a wellness and longevity applied science maven that I haven't had a chance to blow up into a business but I know it will happen eventually and likely soon as I work on it every day.  I'm still trying to figure out how to cure my PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) which causes insulin resistance and have tried many things. I'm using anti-aging supplements (NMN - Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) and Metformin to reverse aging, helping my gray hair revert to dark brown again - an on-going but slow process that's been going on for several years.  I'm still doing intermittent fasting every day to some extent to contribute to reversing aging now going on probably three years.  I can't wait until this patent is filed and we can release the games, so I can start selling anti-aging supplements that I've been using anyway and put out information on lots of things I've cured.  I am also curing that toenail fungus they always advertise about which I've tried things for years to cure but am curing it with raw honey - it's half grown out because toenails grow so slowly it takes a year or more to grow out the sick parts of the nail at a mm a month or less, but it's improving!  I have several other treatments lines up to test after the affected nails grow fully out and I can see if it comes back.

I've finally forced myself to reset to earlier bedtimes that I had been for a variety of traumatic reasons such as prior health issues I've since self-treated and cured, that used to amp up at bedtime and ruin my sleep not to mention my daughter's massive Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) that I cured (now around 10 years and running, probably more, since she had symptoms, like since Thanksgiving of 2012 or 2013, which used to keep her and me up most nights - it was so horrible but thankfully gone.  I will finish a video series/book about how I did it once I start the wellness company to go with the supplements after the Patent is filed.  I walk every single day for half and hour but just upped it to an hour and try to do so first thing in the morning while it's still really cool, like in the 50's or low 60's, which has reinforced my desire to keep this habit and move earlier to 5 or 6 am, I'm just not here yet!

Oh, I've mostly stopped doing the Son-Rise Program with my daughter as far as hiring and training others - it was too time consuming given my trying to create businesses I've been thinking about and planning for years and now am focused on implementing.  However the Son-Rise® Program attitude mostly dominates my really great relationship with my daughter, which is a "win" every day, and the mental techniques of the Option Institute are tools I pool from most if not every day with her and turning around my life to be what it as meant to be before Autism and other really bad stuff derailed me, so it's a "win" overall to have done it.   Thank you to any of you who participated in our program with Anna, some of whom I know have followed her progress here, it did make a difference.  

I need to go - it's already almost midnight and I need to get up early to walk!  

I know it's been a LONG time since my last post.  Sorry about that! I know I need to be doing more online communications on a number of topics.  Having PCOS makes me programmed to gain weight and have trouble losing it my whole life and I'm always embarrassed about how I look but I'm sick of hiding and think I just have to get over that.  

Thank you for reading all the way to the end of this post!   Hope you come back to see posts here more often.  I'll be posting more often and would like to help other people this way.

Best Wishes until next time

- Barb : )