Hi there,
I am questioning myself if I can do sth. with my diet. I eat mainly vegeterian, sometimes vegan.
I am not eating a lot of sugar beside drinking lemonade and eating sweets from time to time. In some weeks I eat a lot conveniece food, which pushes the sugar, surely high above my regular consumption.
I love salt and know that I should reduce it a bit.
Veggies and fruits are dayli.
Did you experiment and experienced differences regarding your diet and autistic symptoms? I found some ppl talking about positive changes coming from their diet, but couldnt find scientific work about.
Protein. Your brain has to work harder than most peoples and protein is good at repairing the tissue. I ate a lot of meat but its expensive now so lots of eggs, beans and chickpeas in my diet, and tinned fish, but you can get plenty of protein without meat
There is research into moderate protein and reduced gluten and casein diets to help with autism by universities and autism organisations. Googling autism diet protein or autism diet gluten should bring a couple of those up. But this seems to be a well rounded compilation of the ones ive seen:
That is very interesting to read - I only learned quite recently that I have been autistic my whole life (in my third decade of life), and in the past, I had been wondering if I had some sort of gluten sensitivity, as I had noticed my psyche sometimes getting quite wonky after eating gluten-heavy meals.
Vegan, for the animals. They don’t deserve what we do to them, so it’s worth the effort to stop exploiting them
Mostly just mitigate bad-texture and try to work around it. I try to try new things… actually had a problem with not eating for most of my life so now if I don’t know what something’s like I’ll probably try it if it doesn’t have some clear indicator of bad texture.
I also limit caffeine intake as per doctor’s recommendation, replacing it with water for most of the day. Don’t like water but it’s supposed to be healthy.
Since I have absolutely no self control when it comes to food, I have no diet.
I love salt and know that I should reduce it a bit.
Not necessarily. You need salt. If you don’t have medical issues due to salt, you should be ok. If you do, and your doctor agrees, then limit your salt. If you don’t, then go wild. Salt is vital.
