Stop Looking for Someone to Tell You What to Do: Autism Parenting with Len Arcuri

Yeah, you know, you hit on root cause medicine and it's something that I believe is really swirling beautifully in this community now because it invites us to look so much deeper at the cellular level of a child when, especially when, years and years of your path has just been, as you say, like guided by others telling you, try this, try this, try this.

And I These challenges just continue to go on despite all this tremendous heavy effort by parents who just think they're just being... siloed and led by people who genuinely have deep care, but it ends up landing in a way that I believe causes much more deeper confusion.

And how do you think, you know, the tension or think about the tension of continuing to search for answers in root cause? I know you and I are both aligned with Beto Health and the discussion and building out of the Lucavorin prescriptions accessibility strategy.

to parents of children with autism in this country.

And I'd be remiss to say that you and I are not one cure-all devotees in any way, but we really dive into cellular and molecular parts of this journey.

So how do you share that with your clients and understanding that there is so many different barrels of this when it comes to root causes?

Yeah, I think the concept of root cause, which I admittedly am obsessed with, and that kind of goes not just to the journey with my son, but even before then, what I did before shifting careers was being obsessed with root causes with respect to huge financial organizations and why they weren't functioning the way they could.

So that's where I can go long about that history, but just know that, yeah, in our prior world, which was more financial-related issues, a lot of my work morphed into process improvement type work because these companies had very dysfunctional processes that didn't work really well.

So I eventually got certified as a Six Sigma master black belt, somebody who's really good at re-engineering broken processes.

And a big part of that is to figure out what's at the root of why these processes aren't working well.

And so all that naturally was very useful as it came to my son.

So I think This concept of root cause, and yes, functional medicine, MAPS providers, Meadow Health and what they're looking to do, root cause is such an important component of, again, channeling your energy and resources in a way that might move the needle the most for your child.

And I don't think As a parent, I'm never done focusing on the root cause for my son or myself.

So

it never stops.

But I think that curiosity, why you're asking, you know, root cause is just another way of saying, I wonder why.

So I wonder why my child's presenting the way they are.

I'm wondering why speech is a challenge.

I'm wondering why the behaviors.

So I think this kind of daily response, endeavoring to unearth these root causes never ends.

I mean, it doesn't end for me, for my own personal health.

Yeah, you know, you hit on root cause medicine and it's something that I believe is really swirling beautifully in this community now because it invites us to look so much deeper at the cellular level of a child when, especially when, years and years of your path has just been, as you say, like guided by others telling you, try this, try this, try this.

And I These challenges just continue to go on despite all this tremendous heavy effort by parents who just think they're just being... siloed and led by people who genuinely have deep care, but it ends up landing in a way that I believe causes much more deeper confusion.

And how do you think, you know, the tension or think about the tension of continuing to search for answers in root cause? I know you and I are both aligned with Beto Health and the discussion and building out of the Lucavorin prescriptions accessibility strategy.

to parents of children with autism in this country.

And I'd be remiss to say that you and I are not one cure-all devotees in any way, but we really dive into cellular and molecular parts of this journey.

So how do you share that with your clients and understanding that there is so many different barrels of this when it comes to root causes?

Yeah, I think the concept of root cause, which I admittedly am obsessed with, and that kind of goes not just to the journey with my son, but even before then, what I did before shifting careers was being obsessed with root causes with respect to huge financial organizations and why they weren't functioning the way they could.

So that's where I can go long about that history, but just know that, yeah, in our prior world, which was more financial-related issues, a lot of my work morphed into process improvement type work because these companies had very dysfunctional processes that didn't work really well.

So I eventually got certified as a Six Sigma master black belt, somebody who's really good at re-engineering broken processes.

And a big part of that is to figure out what's at the root of why these processes aren't working well.

And so all that naturally was very useful as it came to my son.

So I think This concept of root cause, and yes, functional medicine, MAPS providers, Meadow Health and what they're looking to do, root cause is such an important component of, again, channeling your energy and resources in a way that might move the needle the most for your child.

And I don't think As a parent, I'm never done focusing on the root cause for my son or myself.

So

it never stops.

But I think that curiosity, why you're asking, you know, root cause is just another way of saying, I wonder why.

So I wonder why my child's presenting the way they are.

I'm wondering why speech is a challenge.

I'm wondering why the behaviors.

So I think this kind of daily response, endeavoring to unearth these root causes never ends.

I mean, it doesn't end for me, for my own personal health.