When a Child Stops Playing — Autism and High Phenolic Olive Oil
What these pioneering mothers found.
Imagine your rambunctious toddler joyfully exploring his or her new world and then suddenly or gradually stop playing. Your son no longer makes eye contact. Where once your daughter tested new words, she screams or is silent.
For a staggering 1 in 59 children in the US alone, a parent receives a chilling diagnosis and their world tilts on its axis. Most children are diagnosed around two years of age. Dreams of proms and graduation fade into an unknowable future of treatments and therapies. The focus becomes how to manage the unpredictable, moment to moment.
For a group of passionate mothers there is indefatigable hope, intense faith and the determination of a lioness to protect her cub. These mothers share the belief that they were chosen to have these children because they could love and care for them and grow from the experience.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
For this group of heroic moms, it meant taking charge and finding solutions outside of the box of pharmaceuticals and therapies. They wanted solutions not just treatments and started combing the internet…
