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An honest and inspiring storyline of one mother's search to help her daughter with autism learn to engage with the earth around her. Lina was a precocious toddler - alluring, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came up a seizure, and then, to her parents' horror, the loss of Lina's ability to experiment with, use terminology, and control her impulses. Over the next couple of years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute soreness by biting, screaming, striking, laughing maniacally, and tossing violent tantrums. As an individual mother, with the help of her ex-husband, Helena Hjalmarsson tirelessly pursued every possible avenue to find a diagnosis, and moreover a treatment, for her daughter, and the search carries on to this day. Lina is nine. Special academic institutions, restrictive diets, sensory arousal, relationship-based remedy, gastrointestinal links, homeopathy, and allergy treatment are all explored in detail. Hjalmarsson realizes what helps Lina and what doesn't. She introduces sign terminology to Lina. She partcipates in lengthy daily rigorous one-on-one sessions. By using her ex girlfriend or boyfriend, angelic babysitters, Lina's exceedingly empathetic more radiant sister, and supportive friends, Hjalmarsson handles to create a significant life for Lina, and for herself - a life of love and transcendence. Lina, for everyone her problems, has much to instruct, and Hjalmarsson is a receptive student: finding joy in moments of connection, learning to live in the present, taking little or nothing for granted, acknowledging what others find intolerable, and locating a strength and religious base for enthusiasm and therapeutic. Unflinchingly honest and courageous, Finding Lina will start the eye and hearts and heads of most parents, if they have a child with autism or not.
