Alleviate Autism Symptoms (Crystal Alchemy)

The diagnostic anchor for Autism Spectrum Disorder under DSM-5 is a dyad: persistent deficits in social communication across multiple contexts, and the presence of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. Symptoms must be present early in development and cause significant impairment in social and occupational functioning, and cannot be better accounted for by intellectual disability or global developmental delay, though both conditions can and frequently do co-occur.

The social-communication axis covers three distinct planes. Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity range from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation, to reduced sharing of interests or affect, to failure in initiating or responding to social interactions. On top of that, nonverbal communicative behaviors break down (eye contact, gesture, facial expression, body language) and the capacity to develop and maintain relationships varies dramatically across individuals. What this looks like in practice spans from a child who does not orient to their own name and shows no proto-declarative pointing, to an adult who can sustain professional relationships but consistently misreads subtext and social hierarchy.

Sensory abnormalities are very often found in subjects with ASD, especially in the first years of life, leading to a distortion of the perception of reality and representing the possible key to understanding many of their atypical behaviors - such as attraction to artificial lights, annoyance for crowded environments, food selectivity - and also of challenging behaviors like auto- or hetero-aggressiveness.

The considerable heterogeneity of the ASD clinical picture is mainly due to frequent comorbidity. Intellectual disability, ADHD, insomnia, mood disorders, and epilepsy are among the possible neuropsychiatric comorbidities. Medical comorbidities, particularly gastroenterological ones including celiac disease, can further complicate the clinical picture. When you look at raw epidemiological data, individuals with ASD have higher rates of depression (20% vs 7% in non-ASD populations), anxiety (11% vs 5%), sleep difficulties (13% vs 5%), and epilepsy (21% with co-occurring intellectual disability vs 0.8%).

What this means functionally is that ASD is less a discrete condition and more a convergence of multiple neurobiological processes landing on a shared phenotypic surface. The pathogenetic mechanisms hypothesized include oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, alteration of the intestinal microbiota, immune dysregulation, and neuroinflammation, and these are not mutually exclusive but could act in synergy, with epigenetic modifications potentially serving as the mechanism through which environmental factors translate into altered gene expression.

This is a combination of all crystals that will work together, in synergy, towards improving the symptoms of this condition.

A crystal alchemy here works well because ASD can be very difficult to understand and pinpoint the origin of symptoms, and how they are related.

Use as you wish. I would use 2~3 times per session in kids though.