STRANGE, RARE, AND PECULIAR KIDS

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STRANGE, RARE, AND PECULIAR KIDS

• What Every Homeopath Needs to Know to Treat
  Children with
• Asperger Syndrome

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ASPIES

• oblivious to social cues
• bizarre behaviors
• literal, pedantic speech
• grand passions
• precocious readers
• restricted repertoire of interests
• obsessiveness
• physical hypersensitivity

• minimal eye contact
• lack theory of mind
• need structure and routine
• awkward, clumsy
• dont fit in
• ostracized by peers
• endearing, annoying
• make wonderful homeopathic patients!

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A Typical Aspie TW
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Grand Passion AH
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CASE TAKING

• Parents of AS kids are often excellent informants
• GO WITH THE ENERGY OF THE CHILD!!!
• Love his grand passion
• Enter his world
• Prepare to be amazed, amused, enlightened

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Entering His World Noah
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Analyzing the Case

• Kingdom
• Miasm
• Family
• Remedy

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A Few Tips

• Rigid kids, such as math savants, may need a
  mineral or a nosode
• Strong security and safety issues can point to a
  mineral
• AS Kids with Sensory Integration Disorder often
  need plant remedies
• Let kids lead you to animal remedies, not vice
  versa

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Cody Too Sensitive for Words

• sensory overload
• He just cant take it
• throws hands over ears
• heart-wrenching sobs
• screams for no reason
• spews out his emotions
• way low pain threshold
• freaks out at dentist
• odor of peanuts is unbearable
• over-the-top picky abt food
• cant stand noise, light, touch, chaotic
  situations

• exquisite sensitivity to needles
• noises feel like arrows going into my eardrums
• detting smacked on the hand feels like a bunch of
  splinters
• novocaine is like a giant arrow going into my gum
• people stepping on me is like a million needles
  going into my foot
• really scared of hornets, starfish, blood
• dream of bashing people with a big sword

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Remedy

• Plant
• Loganiaceae
• Malarial miasm
• SPIGELIA

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Follow-up

• no headaches
• more cooperative in school
• less vulgar
• back to his sweet, lovable self
• fewer episodes of sensitivity
• no dreams of hurting other children
• no splinter-like sensation in face
• off Risperdal (had caused a 40 wt. gain) and
  down from a size 18 to a size 12

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An Animal Set Free Conner
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Highly Likely to Improve with Homeopathic
Treatment of AS

• restlessness
• mood changes
• impulsivity
• concentration
• school performance
• angry outbursts
• oppositional behavior
• socially inappropriate behavior

• most physical sxs
• hypersensitivity
• confidence
• social awkwardness
• social isolation
• ability to mk friends
• obsessive behavior
• inability to engage in team sports

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Will Probably Improve with Homeopathic Treatment
of AS

• tics
• hyperfocus on special interests
• encopresis (bowel impaction)
• echolalia
• bedwetting

• perseveration
• eye contact
• learning disabilities
• pickiness
• self-stimulatory
• behaviors
• pedantic speech
• empathy

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Want to Learn More?

• Read our book A Drug-Free Approach to Asperger
  Syndrome and Autism Homeopathic Care for
  Exceptional Kids
• Visit us at www.drugfreeasperger.com to listen to
  our Autism One radio shows and other tapes and to
  see our schedule