I was first contacted by Magnus’s father in 2007, he is a British national living in Sweden as a translator. His son Magnus lost his speech (bilingual in both English and Swedish) at 2.5 years of age coincident to being weaned off breast milk. He started walking on his tiptoes, stimming, spinning and had a constant high-pitched humming. There was also a total loss of eye contact. His parents did their best to implement suggested biomedical interventions, such as removing dairy and gluten from his diet. In December of 2002, a fever set off his first documented seizure from which he continues to suffer.
This story is all too familiar, but what is unique about Sweden is that insurance plans do not pay for treatment of congenital problems, so in Sweden all the experts believe there is only one type of autism… congenital autism.
I was first contacted by Magnus’s father in 2007, he is a British national living in Sweden as a translator. His son Magnus lost his speech (bilingual in both English and Swedish) at 2.5 years of age coincident to being weaned off breast milk. He started walking on his tiptoes, stimming, spinning and had a constant high-pitched humming. There was also a total loss of eye contact. His parents did their best to implement suggested biomedical interventions, such as removing dairy and gluten from his diet. In December of 2002, a fever set off his first documented seizure from which he continues to suffer.
This story is all too familiar, but what is unique about Sweden is that insurance plans do not pay for treatment of congenital problems, so in Sweden all the experts believe there is only one type of autism… congenital autism.
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