I have a son who is 29 years old. I have just discovered that he probably has high functioning autism. Amazing, but I've never known anything about autism other than seeing Rain Man years ago. My main concern right now is his health. He has chronic and severe constipation in spite of all his efforts: gluten-free, dairy-free, meat-free diet. In his desperation he started getting colonics, eating "strange" concoctions of juices and wasabe, raw food diet, taking senna, etc. Nothing seems to work except the colonics. He's miserable and depressed because of his physical problems (and the autism). Unfortunately, he doesn't have medical insurance because he works as a journeyman carpenter and they rarely have insurance unless they are in the union. I think he needs to get a colonoscopy to find out what's going on in his colon. I'm concerned about the depression also. Don't know where to start! He's also afraid to face the autism label. Can anyone help??
Thanks