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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.
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Mar 13, 2026
They Blamed Her Parenting. Karen Spent a Decade Proving Them All Wrong
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6:59Jeannie WaldenHOST
Did you find yourself reaching out to other parents that were affected? How did you really start to gain more information about autism?
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7:08Karen ThomasGUEST
Well, as you can imagine, back then, there really wasn't a lot of information available.
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7:19Karen ThomasGUEST
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.
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7:35Karen ThomasGUEST
And we thought, this is, I mean, so we tried different discipline things, everything you can imagine.
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