@chance – The Out of Sync Child was a big help to us too and absolutely agree with your idea of where spectrum disorders originate from. B”H none of our kids our vaccinated and we’ve had a very good natural doctor to help with detoxing from heavy metals that he feels we have picked up.
My daughter’s recent flare up over the last year we’re sure comes from an old house we were living in for less than year, we did all we could to encapsulate lead and was told by all our friends it would be fine, we were wrong. We got out of there as quick as could. We’re still trying to slowly detox the low levels of lead that have affected her and my youngest.
As to a website, here’s my idea and “pitch”. I would love to see a Jewish leaning site on spectral disorders. Where there are articles on various topics within the spectrum. The site would have multiple authors with various perspectives and experiences with having children within the spectrum and being Jewish or B’nei Noach. It would essentially operate like a blog, but would be categorized in such a way that it, over time, becomes a bigger and bigger resource. Each post/article would show up on the main page and at the end of the article would be a quick footer bio of that author, a couple sentences saying where that Author is coming from:
Example:
Sean is a father of three young children in his B’nei Noach family. His youngest two have spectral disorders which they have taken a naturalistic approach to treatment through diet, therapies and chiropractic/CST care. They live in the mountains of central Virginia where they buy as much food locally as they can.
You very quickly have an idea of where the author is coming from, can click on the author’s name to find more articles/posts from them. A forum is also a very easy thing to implement, and like the coffee room, a good way to get people to keep coming back.
I have a packed week this coming week and probably won’t be checking this thread, but if anyone is interested in coming together on this project, please email me: sean [at] cvillenoahide.com
My wife is a good writer and would probably be one of the authors, I’m not that good with getting my thoughts on paper, it takes me too long! 🙂 If we get a couple authors together, we’ll talk through email and make it happen. I would love for a Rabbi with spectral disorder experience to be a contributor, I know you all gave a couple names, does anyone want to approach one of them with the idea?