Fiona O’leary fighting for a brighter tomorrow.

by Emma Dalmayne

I caught up with Autism rights campaigner Fiona O’leary who is herself on the Autistic spectrum and a keen activist for putting an end to a wide variety of mistreatments of children and adults on the spectrum.

Fiona is a mother to five children who's determination to leave no stone unturned and fight for justice leaves most of us exhausted just watching her.

Diagnosed at age 42 with Aspergers Syndrome she describes her diagnosis as “A huge relief to finally getting an answer, to me!”.

Fiona is best known to the public for appearing on Primetime RTE one special ‘The Bleach Cult’ after bringing her concerns of Miracle Mineral Solution to the attention of reporter Rita O’ Reilly , together they made history by exposing the infamous Genesis 11 Church, exposing the malpractice and fraudulent claims of Jim Humble and Kerri Rivera and blowing the roof off the closed domain that is CD Autism.

After bringing GcMaF to public attention and helping expose David Noakes on the Jersey radio waves Fiona's now looking into getting legislation put in place against practicing MMS.

Not to mention her new charitable organisation ART Autistic Rights Together.

I was keen to find out how MMS came to Fiona's attention and she told me she first heard of it last June. “ I started investigating and learned through contacting Genesis 11 Church and one Mark Kishon about Kerri Rivera and CD Autism. I then found MMS for sale in Ireland, it was offered to me by four people and two were professionals. I and others set up a campaign immediately. We discovered MMS/CD was being used all over the world.

Fiona feeling shocked and understandably disgusted states “ Its experimentation and abuse”.

Desperate to bring this to the public eye, Fiona goes on to explain “ I chased the media and luckily the wonderful Rita O’Reilly listened to me and built the wonderful documentary “The Bleach Cult”.

The Bleach Cult has proved a game changer for the MMS campaigners, now having something to refer to and forward in emails to Autism rights organisations and politicians worldwide. People are justifiably horrified at the pain and humiliation these children are suffering at the hands of the ones meant to protect them.

Fiona States “ We need urgent legislation to ban all unregulated dangerous Autism treatments. I feel we can and will achieve this. We are strong and will fight for our rights.”

Apart from campaigning Fiona is a busy mother to five children, two of whom are diagnosed Autistic. Not only is Fiona fighting for the children of today but to build a brighter future for her own two children and future generations.

“ I love being with my beautiful family and I am so lucky to be a mum to five wonderful children. I love my husband Timmy and my family they are everything to me.”

Fiona lists her hobbies and interests as: politics, art , film and travel. Her biggest passion she says is human rights and she cannot tolerate injustice. Fiona also loves music.

“I love being an advocate. I'm a musician, singer and songwriter and music is a passion of mine”.

Fiona has a busy life with five children, her husband Timmy who's been fully supportive throughout and their five Chihuahuas not to mention the family cat. Getting up and making pack lunches, school runs then going home to email and make phone calls to politicians and media is not the usual pastime of most housewives. Fiona is however no ordinary woman and together she and Timmy have found the time to start ART .

“ART is a safe place for Autistic people where they can express themselves freely. We will fight for the rights of Autistics in all aspects of their lives,” Fiona said passionately.

“ We hope to provide a forum and a phone line to offer support . We welcome contributions from Autistic people like writings and pieces of art.”

All in all Fiona's been extremely busy and achieved in under a year a staggering amount in the fight against Autistic mistreatment.

Fiona closed the interview with the parting sentence “ Awareness is important but acceptance is paramount, it's time we celebrated in the differences we share.”

The difference between us:

Bleacher caring versus mother caring.

by Emma Dalmayne

My little daughter is two and a half and is getting over a virus. She's got a temperature, sickness, the runs, lethargic and miserable.

It occurred to me after we had been to the doctors that these are all symptoms that a child abused with MMS would display, only if I was a mother who was using it on their child I would not have gone to the doctor, oh no.

I would have posted in the CD group about it and been told to up the dose and been congratulated on my child's temperature as its their immune system kicking in .

I would look at her shivering and vomiting and worry about one thing only, how will she keep the CD drops down if she's vomiting?

Enema.

Now when I personally change my little daughter or bathe her I am very careful around her nether regions. She knows she's a little princess and that mummy would never hurt her.

As a CD mother I would be preparing the enema. A two and a half year old would struggle.

So to insert a tube into them without them pulling it out you would need to hold them still, hold their hands and grasp their feet, two person job? I would think so.

So we have the difference don't we?

Love and cherish v restrain and abuse.

They would cry and if verbal say no , stop it, mummy!!

Any normal reaction if your child's distraught would be to scoop them up loving them and shushing them, kissing their tears away and allying their fears.

But no, not for a CD abused child.

They can't scoop them up and hold them as they are to busy rushing them to sit on a pot to empty out their bowel lining.

They may reassure them while they pass chunks of their insides that this is what's needed to be “normal” and that soon they will be like all the other two and a half year olds who don't have autism. Playing, talking and laughing.

What they don't see and refuse to see is that they are perfect. They are playing just not neurotypically. They are communicating but in a different way and may need help with signing or PECS. If they laugh apparently “parasites” are tickling them. And a dosage increase will soon put pay to that.

So that is why these people need to be put in jail. Their children need to be taken to safe loving families so they can heal and slowly psychologically get to grips with what has been done to them.

I in the meantime will cherish my children and take them to the doctors when they are ill, as any parent should.

Dissociating myself from their Autism.

by Emma Dalmayne

After my son was diagnosed with Autism then subsequently myself I decided to do this piece for those who's child may be diagnosed with Autism or you may only have the suspicion that they are on the spectrum.

Apart from concerns about your child's communication and social skills they may also display self stimulating behaviours and melt downs.

These behaviours may display as pacing, rocking, jumping and spinning.

They may have oral stimms they use to regulate themselves from humming, singing, shrieking, repetitive speech or screaming.

They may sniff, lick and spit.

They may also have self injurious behaviours such as chewing their hands and mouth, head banging, pinching themselves and punching solid objects.

The need for stimming is to regulate, ground and self calm.

Children with Autism will access stimming to trigger a part of their brain that releases endorphins to control their environment and also for enjoyment.

Your child needs to exhibit these behaviours to make sense of the world around them and feed their vestibular, priopreceptive, olfactory, visual and auditory senses.

Some of these will need to be re directed such as the spitting and chewing which can both be helped with chewy tubes specifically made for oral sensory seekers.

Helmets to protect their head during a head banging episode will help as will crash mats and a punching bag with gloves for heavy priopreceptive seekers.

Trampolines, spinning chairs, swings and exercise balls to bounce on help with the vestibular seeker.

A meltdown may occur for a number of reasons, frustration and sensory overload being two.

My child may sink to the ground screaming in a busy shop and there's good reasons for this.

It's busy, bright and there's lots of sounds.

To help with this ear defenders or headphones with favourite music playing will cover the beeping and general background noise.

Tinted lensed glasses will help with the bright lights as will a low brimmed cap or a hooded top.

Lastly a small handheld timer with an extra fifteen minutes added on to your approximate time shopping just in case you see a friend and stop to say hello will help your child greatly as they will feel slightly more in control. A shopping list written or with visuals for them to have is also good .

Now if these things have not worked and your child is having a meltdown I need you as a parent to remember this.

Disassociating myself from his Autism.

Sounds callous doesn't it?

It's anything but.

To often I read parents blogs where the parent is asking what should they do if people stare?

Some parents feel embarrassed and their reaction is to drag their child out of the shop.

By all means if your child is wanting to leave do so and swiftly.

But if they need a minute to feel the solidness of the ground beneath them to ground them and if they need to scream to let it out, allow them that.

It's not about you, it's about your child.

If your child hits you in a meltdown it's not about you.

It's about THEM showing you the pain inside they cannot outwardly communicate any other way be it verbally or not.

If they are outside having a meltdown and there's muttering made by passers by and stares given ignore them. If they are judging your parenting skills they do so out of ignorance and your only focus should be your child, block others out of your radar.

Your child in a meltdown state is angry, their flight or flight mechanism has kicked in and they may react violently if they believe they are threatened in any way.

This is where you yourself come into your own as their guardian and advocator

Do not touch your child unless they seek it as some children like to be held firmly when they are distressed. If you can try not to touch them as in a meltdown touch can feel incredibly intrusive and cause your child to strike out indiscriminately.

If they are self injuring guide the hands down to their sides and only ever restrain your child of they are at risk of hurting themselves or others.

Try if possible to move them to a quiet place and keep language minimal as in this state it's hard if not impossible to comprehend any communication attempted.

It's not for you to take blame and wonder what you may have done wrong nor place the blame on your child.

Meltdowns can be brought on by a temper tantrum and feeling out of control can trigger one.

They are never intentional and the individual should not be reprimanded but rather advised how next time to avoid one.

Disassociate yourself from their Autism and act only in their interest, it's their Autism and their behaviours your job is to help them cope with it.

It can be hard when you are on the spectrum yourself to deal with another's meltdown as it can trigger a lot of anxiety and overload within yourself. Make time for yourself for retuning, I love to have a warm relaxing bath with bubbles and stimm on the effects of the water, I also have a very soft teddy bear I like to stroke for tactile feedback to help ground and regulate myself. It's about knowing when you are at your limit, breathing deeply and taking a step back, reminding yourself that this is their issue and your responsibility is to keep them safe yet respect they are feeling like this for a reason and not as any reflection on you.

Autistics under siege, the hate epidemic.

by Emma Dalmayne

It's the year 2015. I am an Autistic and have autistic children.

To be an Autistic with spectrum children I see and hear both sides ie neurotypical view points on Autism and the view points of those who do not realise I am on the spectrum.

The ones who say sorry when they hear my children are Autistic.

The ones who smile with pity and assure me ‘They can do wonderful things these days with them can't they?”

The ones who say ‘Better not have anymore children then, does the father have it?’

The ones who say ‘Unfortunately there's no cure, if there was wouldn't we all have tried it?’ In the middle of me explaining about parents bleaching their children's insides in a false bid to ‘cure’ them of their neurodiversity.

Lastly the ones who say ‘But you seem so normal!’

For them I feel pity and an overwhelming resentment.

Autistics wake up every day and move through a world that plays like a film around them.

We try to say the required lines, we shine brightly in a black and white landscape that frowns on alternative communication, that wishes to halt what it terms as unusual movements or behaviours.

We have in 2015 an ABA school in the U.S. Called the Judge Rottenburg Centre funded in part by Autism Speaks an organisation that profiles to help families with Autistic members but seeks cure and intro utero testing. In this centre they use electric shock treatment for misdemeanours such as struggling when being shocked, not answering a question fast enough and flexing your hands.

Clinics using GcMAF and killing patients.

We have websites promoting so called medications made from sodium chlorite promising to kill mythical parasites curing your child of their dreadful afflictions, teeth grinding, tiptoe walking and spontaneous laughter.

Autism blamed as the cause of Dr Jeff Bradstreets death.

Restraint being used in schools that would not be used on fully grown inmates in a prison.

Books published on protocols recommending bleach treatments for administration straight to the colon of babies as young as ten months old, adults held down by their parents and anally raped with enema hoses the degradation never fully realised and the devastation each time complete.

Therapists promising to make your child indistinguishable from their neurotypical peers as their parents have been told that to manage in life it is required.

Lacklustre carers looking at their Autistic charges with resentment, walking in the rain holding an umbrella over themselves while their charge walks alongside soaked and shivering. Taking them to the cinema as they have been paid to and refusing them a drink and popcorn, keeping the money supplied by a trusting parent just half an hour before.

Doctors telling us we wish to label our children when we seek a recognition of their neurodiversity.

Opening our eyes each day knowing that outside our door is sensory overload and a world threatened by a glow so bright it can't be quelled.

Going online and learning we are an epidemic, a disease and akin to leprosy.

‘Warrior moms’ telling you they will fight to release their child from this disease, recover them from this sickness!

Autism.

Autistic.

We are the Warriors.

We are the survivors of the barren playgrounds frigid in its alienation.

We are Autistics and we will continue.