Monday, 31 May 2010

• How far we've come on the Yasko protocol

  

  I was filing some papers yesterday and came across some comments from “Mike’s” teachers in the middle of ninth grade. That was a bit more than two years ago.  At the time, he was on supplements from the Yasko protocol, but we had not figured out which ones were helping and which were hindering. His diagnosis was Asperger’s.

  His grades were dismal: two F’s, two D’s, two C’s.  His biology teacher wrote, “(Mike) is often distracted and often disrupts class.”

  His English teacher: “He told me today that when he hears Sesame Street songs he feels so bad that he cannot control his reaction (he grabbed his head and started rocking back and forth because a girl in his group was singing a Sesame Street song under her breath).”

  The same teacher, different day: “Today, (Mike) would not work for over half of the hour. He said he had something on his mind. He was antagonizing a student who sits near him by making grunting noises and tapping on his desk.”

  As you know, the story is different now. Mike is making straight As. He’s not totally recovered from Asperger’s, mind you, but he has come a LONG way. It’s been a bit over two years since a chiropractor used “muscle testing” to weed out the supplements that weren’t helping.

  “Mike” mentioned meeting another teen a few days ago who wanted to talk on and on about videogames. “I know I used to be like that,” he told me. “So I was patient with him.”

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