© Copyright 2010 by Entropy Enigneering I’ve had way too many well meaning parents tell me that the things that have worked for my son are just too difficult to do, too expensive, too much trouble, or just wouldn’t work anyway. I’ve also had parents look at my kid now and try to say that he is starting from a more advanced place than theirs. Well, nope. Not quite true. I’ve got the video. And that’s the problem. Once you have committed to trying to help your child, you can find like minded people, whether online or in person. There are gatherings and conferences where parents, doctors, and other specialist share their knowledge, successes and failures. Getting some people to cross the threshold and start the healing process can be surprisingly difficult, and that is where the Autism Healing movie comes in. In this movie, I will be interviewing people with lots of initials after their names, Such as M.D., that can talk with the proper authority on the topic of healing. There will also be interviews with supporting players like nutritionists and therapists that can help in the road to recovery. Obviously in a movie format I do not the time to go into great depth on any one therapy type, and I don’t want to. The goal is to introduce many of the different techniques that can help an autistic child on the road to recovery. What I would like the viewer to take away from the movie is Hope. Something can be done, as long as you do something. The secondary goal of the movie is to help parents deal with “well meaning” friends and relatives. (As my mother would say, “I’m sure that they’re all nice people.”) Ok, not the ones I hear about the most, but let’s humor her and pretend that they mean well. Perhaps they would sit through an hour and a half movie and hear the authorities themselves describe treatments and possibilities. If the movie can help foster an understanding of what the parents are doing and why, maybe there’d be a bit more support, and a little less sabotaging of the parents efforts. Just as important as what the movie is, is what the movie isn’t. It is not a movie that puts up with wallowing in despair. I don’t expect to be wasting valuable screen time discussing how we feel about the diagnosis. Everyone who agrees that getting the diagnosis really sucks, raise your hand. Great! And they say that large groups of people don’t agree on anything. Don’t expect to hear sappy strings in the soundtrack or see lots of teary moms. Maybe one or two or I might not get into the writer’s union, but it is really a cliché. It’s not like it’s difficult to get the moms to tear up.