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Karen Thomas

Karen Thomas, CMT, CST-D is founder and CEO of Naturally Recovering Autism and host of the Naturally Recovering Autism podcast.

Mar 13, 2026

6:59
Did you find yourself reaching out to other parents that were affected? How did you really start to gain more information about autism?
7:08
Well, as you can imagine, back then, there really wasn't a lot of information available.
7:14
In fact, we started taking my son to therapists when he was five.
7:19
And for five years, we went to multiple therapists who just kept telling us that it was our fault as parents, the way he was behaving, that if we were with discipline.
7:31
He wouldn't behave that way.
7:33
It was just horrific.
7:35
And we thought, this is, I mean, so we tried different discipline things, everything you can imagine.

12 MINS LATER

19:20
It's all of the above.

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