To want to cry at this? (ASD related)

[mrsflux]

I've seen/ heard interviews with the dad from this and every time I do it makes me want to cry my eyes out! I don't have any experience of ASD other than children at school but it just breaks my heart!

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I amasceptic about this sort of thing, by both nature and experience yet I fund the interview and filon TV moving and intriguing.

That strapline os hit though.I know far too many who have all but bankrupted themselves searching for a cure, and I hate that. If however you are looking fors omething that you can enjoy in tandem with your asd child then there may be a very good thing here, one that riding for the disabled have been doing for many years surely?

Washing out bad wombs?My asd boys are alternate births, how would that work then?

I doubt whether a week(or whatever) camp with horses or dolphins would heal anyone because I think it needs to be an ongoing sustained effort.
Diet helps, pets also help and I think different people react differently to environment - eg I would not go near a horse myself.
I think the awesomeness of another strange/different creature which doesn't demand communication brings out the need to communicate in some, in perhaps a different way. I wouldn't turn down opportunity if I had one but wouldn't hold high hopes of healing on one seesion.

Apologies for being a bit off topic but DS has dyspraxia (not ASD) and riding has been brilliant for him, in terms of building confidence. Although having said that he had a few falls/scares recently and is only just starting to regain that confidence.

I've not seen the film - what happens when a child with ASD falls from a horse or when a horse rears and scares the bejesus out of them (because it will happen at some point)? Does it undo all the good work?

Starlight it's not cheap (we pay £10 a lesson so not that dear I guess, compared to some "therapies") but riding doesn't take up that much time for us - a couple of hours basically a week, including travel time. Ds doesn't have jodhpurs or anything - the riding school provides any kit required.

I think it was also eating the mongolian food (all fermented stuff) and seeing the shaman as well as the riding (with a constant need to keep your balance which helps the vestibular systemand) which also was part of the reason for improvement?

When I first heard about this film I thought I'd want to watch it, being a horse-lover and the mum of a boy with ASD, but somehow I can't bring myself to. Like others I've had enough of the insinuation (from books etc) that if my son hasn't been 'cured' then I'm just not trying hard enough.
It also might be because ds does ride and he loves it but after 4 years of it he still doesn't speak so I think it will just make me depressed.
However, I did flick through the book in Tesco and got all judgy when I saw the photos. (No way am I sticking ds bareback on a horse that is way too big for him, without a hat and letting him gallop up a field by himself, no matter how good a photo it makes!)

I haven't seen the film, but I did read an article on it, think it was linked from this site actually. Didn't they also spit vodka in the boys face?

I've probably done that but he tickles me a lot and I have the occasional tipple

I'm undecided on this film. As a mum to 2 autistic boys, I would dearly love to find something that would ease their frustration, but something like these horse camps may work for some, and not for others.

All children are different, wether they have s/n or not. I don't think that it would be suitable for my boys, especially as my DS1 is severely physically disabled too.

I do feel that this film may do some good to raise awareness for ASD though.

Riven that is fantastic news about the Keto diet.