© Copyright 2010 by Entropy Enigneering Ahhh! So you are interested in the fine art of film making. Well I could go on and on about the work that my brother and I did in Hollywood on TV shows and fine cinema, but that is for a different web page. If you are here, you are probably more interested in the serious topic of a movie on healing autism. All the way in the last century, and especially before the Internet, parents were told that autism was a permanent condition, there was nothing to do about it, and don’t forget to pay the cashier on the way out. Oh wait! Did you say that parents are still told that in this century? Ignorance can be slow to subside. Fortunately, the Internet eliminates the isolation between parents trying to heal their children and allows for the free flow of information. Thanks to this, many children with an autism diagnosis are recovered or on the road to recovery. Notice that I use the term healed, not cured. Cured assumes a disease, not a condition. For instance, you might find yourself with a broken leg. The doctor doesn’t give you a magic pill and say that your leg is cured; rather he sets up a series of conditions under which your leg can heal. If it is out of position, it is realigned. If pieces have broken off, they may be put back in place. The leg will most likely be put in a cast to minimize stress on it during the healing process. After a period of time and possibly with a touch of rehab, the leg is usable again. You weren’t cured, but your leg healed. Long term, you might have a change in how you walk over the pre-break days, but your leg is healed and usable. This is much like how things go when healing an autistic child. Unfortunately, not every type of therapy or intervention works on every child. But when they do, the results can be dramatic! As more and more parents ignore conventional wisdom and work on healing their autistic children some have come completely off their diagnosis. Many others show noticeable improvements in their condition. While the doctors are often quick to say “must be a wrong diagnosis” when presented with a recovered child, that simply means that either the current doctor is incompetent or the previous one is. (By the way, they don’t like it if you phrase it that way.) It’s a real problem if they are the same doctor. Assuming that the parents can be convinced that their trusted medical practitioners, teachers, relatives, or other advisers are, shall we politely say, incorrect, they quickly find themselves in a nowhere land of options. Often they are alone with way too many choices and little guidance. These are the lucky ones.  They’ve decided to do something. The others haven’t made it to that first step.