Going Wheat-Free for ABC

To understand where I am, you need to see where I’ve been.

In May of this year, I took my son, ABC, to a developmental psychologist due to some developmental/behavioral issues he was having. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw in his screener that both the daycare and we as parents filled out. But there it was in black and white. He ranged in the clinical level for PDD-NOS—Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified—on both screeners. PDD is associated with Autism in the respect that the child demonstrates some characteristics of autism, however, not enough to say he has classic autism. So here I am sitting in this clinical office being explained what each bracket means, where my son has fallen behind, what next steps to take and all I can see is the label. I’m sure the psychologist saw the pain in…