Addie's Journey Out of Severe Autism

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Addie age 6

on April 09, 2013

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Addie shows her cute little personality here interacting with Grandma.

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Addie using the BEMER 3000

Addie on the Bemer 3000 mat. Very simple to use. Just lay on the mat 8 min twice a day. My daughter started showing signs of autism at around age 18 months although I didn't realize it at the time. She started walking on her tip toes and flapping her arms. She slowly stopped developing language from that point. My journal entries talk about new behaviors she is exhibiting that are typically autistic although I thought the behaviors were just silly at the time. Addie gradually lost more and more attention span and language. She would run away EVERYWHERE we went. She had NO fear. She had NO sense of pain. I remember she got stung by a bee and she didn't even notice. She was in her own little world most of the time. The only things she would say were lines from movies. She was just talking to herself though. She didn't answer to her name or answer questions. It was very very difficult. I didn't know what autism was though really until she was diagnosed

Pictures of Addie!

Pictures of Addie before from 2-3 years old. Addie now Addie got asked to Homecoming!

Rough draft of my book but publishing here it anyway

The Early Intervention Your Child Might Need By Eliza Arnoldus “Addie doesn’t have enough language,” my mom says. Addie had just turned two. She probably would eventually learn language I told myself. Her older brother Tommy was speech-delayed as a two-year-old as well, he eventually learned language, so I was not worried. Ted and I have three children, Tommy (9), Anna (6), and Addie (2). In 2008, we lived in southern California, in a city named Irvine. We lived in a master-planned community called Woodbridge. It had two man-made lakes and numerous walking paths to various parks and swimming pools. I grew up here. This was the neighborhood I grew up in. Ted asked me when we got married where I would like to live, and I said anywhere that is just like Woodbridge. It proved to be somewhat hard to find a place just like it. So, we settled there, in a small townhouse in Woodbridge near a pool and a park. While everything in my life had

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