One week, and so far so good.

This week was discovery. We discovered she doesn't like soy yogurt, but she likes the home made gluten free bread. I also discovered that my grocery store carries gluten free pasta, Bisquick makes a gluten free mix for pancakes and such, and that I really like my local Richards Whole Foods store. Today is Sunday and she has been on this diet for a week. Not all of the gluten and dairy have been removed, but it's been dramatically reduced.

This evening she was great! We worked on some math problems and word recognition and she focused longer than usual and picked it up very nicely. She knows this stuff, she just has a hard time using it. She also was in a wonderful mood. Giggly, huggy, helpful, polite, talkative...happy! Now, she does have random days in which she seems completely normal (well, mostly, there is still the obsession with ants) and it could have just been one of those days.

At this point, restricting her diet can't hurt. If nothing else, it limits choices and forces us to incorporate more fruits, vegees and organic foods. No crap like extra sugar, artificial sweeteners or food dyes. Tomorrow she gets breakfast, oatmeal, with soymilk and a tiny bit of natural unrefined sugar, fruit and juice. Lunch, PBJ on home made bread, hard boiled egg, no sugar added apple juice, carrots and an apple. Tomorrow's dinner is Spaghetti and meat sauce with gluten free pasta, with a leafy green salad. Snack is seedless black grapes and chocolate soy milk.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed. There is no cure for Autism in any form, even as mild as Asperger's, but living a clean life certainly won't hurt!