People With Their Greedy Hands Outstretched

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I was on Google and saw a ad on the right side that said this:
1.
Yes - I Conquered Autism
And So Can Your Child.
Don't Manage Autism - End It.
2-B-Well.Org

So I clicked on it. The non double blind fantastic claims were made but here's the relevant part.
Question: What is the cost?

Answer: The Byonetics program for one year cost only $375 down and $40 per month.

When my kids were young, I remember it didn't take much for parents to eagerly jump on board when they saw stuff like this. Our kids don't need us to be in denial. They don't need us to use up our precious resources chasing rainbows.

Sorry if I sound preachy but I know too many parents, now, who don't chase rainbows anymore. Their kids are grown and the resources are scant. If those rainbow chasing parents had spent their time putting their heads together about real life, they might actually be proud of what kinds of solutions they come up with.

Autism has brought out the worse snake oil sellmen, they should burn in hell. Not only do they take money form parents deprate to make their child better but some of the crazy idea hurt the kids. I've never gone in for any of this and was acused of "neglect" for not taking my kids to be relined, poked and filled with suplments. Screw and anything without a good basic in fact.

A scared parent is the perfect target. Salesmen know to prey on the weak. A parents guilt can be easily turned into gold. That's why some parents will pay over $300 fo a car seat. They are no safer than an average seat, it's just "good" marketing. Now consider the vulnerabillity of a parent with a newly diagnosed kid. I agree that it would be lovely if parents always took the time to think rationally about the situation, learn about it, and accept it, but that would simply never happen. Enter profiteers. These are the people who truly make me sick!

I think you'll find WP members all on the same page. Not only do such treatments waste money, but also time, another precious resource. And, may, in fact, cause sensory stress to the child.

So many parents have said to me that they have to feel they've done all they can to improve their children's lives, or they will never forgive themselves. They seem to know it may be snake oil, but they are haunted by the "what if?" I think, for those of us with high functioning kids, its easy to say "forget it. My child will be fine." But if you have a child that seems to be headed to a life where they can never live independently? It becomes another matter. So I "get" where those parents come from, but I still think its a complete waste and denies the child the one thing that might actually help: intensive time with an adult who loves them and makes them feel secure. But to their eyes, since I have a high functioning child, my opinion does not matter. They can't connect to how the window from the high functioning can help parent the lower functioning, and they do live a life quite far removed from mine. I'd rather stay here than visit the places those parents haunt, but sometimes I worry I've chickened out.

My younger son is nonverbal and has some fairly horfing meltdowns. I hope that he will live on his own one day but I'm willing the face the fact he very will alway need care. From the place I'm at I cannot see putting him threw any more pain or discomford then what I have to. Blood work to make sure he's liver isn't shutting down from the meds he has to take to keep from trying claw his eyes out this is a must, shoving him in a inflable tube that I paid 6k for pain that he doesn't need. Putting a swing in the back yard to help him with his sensory needs sure actupunter no freeking way. Maybe because I know other parents who have had their childern die or are dying that I don't see autism as the "worst' thing that can happen to a kid. My sons alive and not in unending pain he's happy and for the most part does realy well with the cards he was dealt.

In my trips to NM there seems to be a lot of hippies and yuppies there so that would explain a lot. Always out to change the world whether it be by drugs, magic or science.

I told my husband that the one thing that I like about going is that there is such a large Hispanic population that the fact that we have three children does not gain me so many "OMG You are killing our planet by breeding!" looks. Instead I just get a lot of nice older Mexican ladies cooing at the children and beaming at me about how wonderful it is to enjoy motherhood. >_<