![]() ![]() And I can’t in good conscience keep making him come to class.” Devin stopped taking music class. He looks so miserable in class, like he’s in pain. The teacher said, “I’ve never had a child like Devin. But when she arrived at the principal’s office, she was surprised to see Devin’s music teacher, instead of Devin. Deborah assumed it was some behavior issue related to Devin’s autism. Then when Devin was in 3 rd grade, Deborah and Brian got a call from his principal. We just dismissed it as a coincidence,” says Deborah. Then about 10 minutes later, a plane appeared. We would look at the sky and see nothing. “When he was a baby, he would say, ‘Plane, plane,’ and then point at the sky. Though looking back, Deborah says there were signs. His parents, Deborah and Brian, also didn’t realize just how sensitive his hearing was. But Devin’s sensitivity to sound was even harder to manage. Twenty-five years ago, it was harder to find gluten and casein-free foods, so his school lunches received some odd looks. Devin was diagnosed with autism and a gluten and casein allergy, which caused his adverse reaction to pizza. After viewing the video, his doctor, a metabolic specialist at Duke University, referred to it as “the fatal slice of pizza” because of Devin’s extreme reaction. To show his reaction, his mother, Deborah, filmed him eating a slice of pizza. When he would eat certain items, the pain in his abdomen would be so extreme that he’d scream and double over. It was his food sensitivity that triggered his diagnosis. ![]() Before his autism diagnosis, Devin struggled with speaking and thinking clearly, controlling his body, and extreme pain when he ate certain foods. He was diagnosed with autism by TEACCH at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill when he was about 3 years old. According to the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, “ the reported prevalence of sensory sensitivities in people with ASD is high 60 to 96%.”ĭevin has always struggled with sensitivity to sound. Sound sensitivity is common among people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ![]()
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