Autistic diet?

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I googled "autistic diet" and came up with an article related to Jenny Mccarthy and her autistic son. The article lists dairy and wheat gluten to stay away from. I am undiagnosed but have a lot of the traits of aspergers. If I don't have a project I'm exited about, something current in my life I am interested in,,, all I have to do is have dairy or processed wheat to take away my ambition to do just about anything that I don't really have to. I have food sensitivities, I had ulcers as a child. I am hypoglycemic. My mom is a celiac. Through keeping a food diary, trial and error I have found a connection between eating processed wheat and depression. Dairy has a similar but lesser effect to me. I absolutely love eating food but I am sensitive to about 40 food ingredients. I had some Keifer dairy product last evening and after noon today and being in the same room as I today would not be pleasant for anyone. The good thing is I have always been skinny. Has anyone else tried a no dairy, no wheat diet and had it help? I am 45 years old.

I'm a bit new here, and I'm just starting to learn about Aspergers syndrome, which I strongly believe I have. I apologize in advance if some of my questions seem basic.

I've never notice a correlation between the foods I eat and my mood, but I haven't spent much time thinking about it. I am trying to reduce my dairy intake for a completely unrelated reason, so I will see if I notice any sort of difference.

Are there foods that would do the opposite? Foods that would make you more ambitious? For me, drinking coffee or an energy drink can make me more ambitious, though I think this is more of a mental thing than it is nutritional. I think the idea of drinking a Red Bull gives me some sort of extra motivation to do whatever it is I need to do. Unfortunately, it seem that actually drinking one can cause me to become too hyper and lose focus.

this sort of thing has intrigued me for some time but I have never been organised enough to have any sort of diet. I do often feel down in the dumps and struggle to snap out it. Can someone list some obvious foods that I should avoid in an "autistic diet" ? serious question

jenny mcarthy is a porn star actress turned pseudoscientist celebrity

however it might help with stomach issues, you know the drill as per usual though, it's just like your senses in some ways

I think Jenny McCarthy is the one who needs to be saved, not her son.

Wheat and dairy seem to have no effect on me unless I have extreme amounts of them. Like a piece of bread is cool, but I've had weeks where like everything I ate was pasta, I get all bloaty with that.

This is gonna sound weird, but in Chinese medicine theory about ASD, Chinese medicine has food therapy. Where you eat certain foods based on yin or yang of foods, and how hot or cold they are in Chinese medicine terms. IE, egg plants are usually considered yin, and cold, whereas beef is yang and warming. So Chinese medicine says autists lack heat. Of course, in my case, I don't seem to, I seem almost the opposite. So you have to actually look at it all from an individual basis. But for most autists, a higher meat diet seems in order.

One thing I notice personally is, taurine supplementation helped me a good deal. There's supposedly a problem amongst autists where taurine can't be synthesized from other amino acids. Same with carnitine, too. So you either need foods with lots of carnitine or taurine in them (meat) or supplementation.