Hi Jane,

I can't answer your question but I just want to encourage you and say how happy I am for you that you have a chance to change how your son feels. Maybe this time he will notice the difference and really appreciate it and do it himself too.

My son has Aspergers and has the same ability to go from gentle to aggressive and violent. When I went through the steps in 2009 he said he felt so much better, was happier, temper tantrums were almost nonexistent and he could focus and he wanted to eat that way himself and wouldn't accept anything with sugar in. He is with his dad now, eating and drinking junkfood frequently and and has forgotten how he can feel better (as a lot of us seem to when we go back into the sugar).

All the best with Social Security too, for the best outcome for everyone.

This is a really emotional time so take really good care of yourself too Jane.

All the very best,
Fiona

: Hi everyone

: About 5 years ago, my ADHD son went
: to live with his father because he
: missed him. Contact between my son
: and I stopped three years ago
: through his own choice after he
: had a temper tantrum (part of his
: ADHD.)

: His father is now having difficulties
: coping with him, as my son is very
: unpredictable behaviourally and
: can change in a split second, from
: being an angel, to being very
: aggressive and violent. He is 13
: years old.

: I am shortly going to be assessed by
: UK Social Services to see if I am
: a viable full time carer for him.
: I know he is definitely Sugar
: Sensitive, not only from his
: similar symptoms to how I was on
: sugars, but also before he left my
: care before, he was on step one
: for a month (with the approval of
: the School Headteacher who I had
: given a copy of PnP to read) and
: his class teachers were not
: informed he was changing his diet.
: After a couple of weeks maximum,
: they asked me what I had done to
: him, because he was a completely
: different child in the mornings,
: he was no longer disrupting the
: class by swearing, refusing to
: work, or hiding under the desks. I
: have the knowledge obviously of
: the things that changed for him
: then and the things that have
: changed in myself since being off
: sugar, but he has educational
: problems, for example, he can read
: almost up to his age ability but
: reads the letters, and words,but
: asked to explain the story,
: doesn't have a clue about it.
: Therefore he sees the
: letters,reads them, but isn't
: understanding them. He also has
: communication problems.

: Can anyone tell me if these could be
: symptoms of ADD, assuming ADD is
: symptoms additional to the Sugar
: Sensitivity ones, and can anyone
: tell me from their own experience
: with ADD or their children's, what
: sort of things have changed since
: they did the food?

: Many thanks for any responses.

: Love

: Jane
: xx