CBD to Heal Autism Symptoms

12/06/2022

Love this! 🥰

Happy Saturday y’all ❤️💙💛💚🧡

09/06/2022

💜

07/06/2022

We made these delicious gluten-free pancake covered chocolate vanilla cream cookies yesterday for breakfast. Who said you can’t have cookies for breakfast? Lol.

I even added flaxseeds and h**p hearts in the batter to make it a little more healthy. Of course they were a hit with my daughter and she helped me make them. Sooo goood! 😋

Ingredients for the pancake batter:

▢ 2 tablespoons brown sugar or organic coconut sugar
▢ 2 tablespoons coconut oil
▢ 1 egg
▢ 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
▢ 1 cup all-purpose gluten-free flour
▢ 1 tablespoon of baking powder
▢ ¼ teaspoons salt
▢ 2 teaspoons flaxseeds
▢ 3 teaspoons of h**p hearts
▢ About ¾ cup almond milk or coconut milk

Mix all the ingredients together (if it’s too thick you can add more milk to thin it out. I just eyeballed it til I got the right consistency. You don’t want it to be too runny though.

I used store-bought gluten-free chocolate and vanilla cream cookies.

Then I just dipped the cookies in the batter and cooked them in coconut oil.

25/05/2022

Day 6 of giving my daughter who has autism cbd to relieve her anxiety/self-hitting/aggression. (I took these notes over a week ago. I planned to do this in real time but I’ve fallen behind on posting my notes. Spoiler alert: she’s actually doing a LOT better today then how she was when I wrote this. It’s cool to see how much she has progressed in such a short span of time. It’s a huge difference from how she was a couple weeks ago in comparison to how she is now. I am grateful for her speedy progress! It’s working!

7:30am 1st dose 8mg
Woke up banging a little & agitated.

9am
She fell back asleep until now. Breakfast: peanut butter, banana, flax, organic honey, vegan choco chips, oats & vanilla oat milk smoothie bowl w/ crushed chex on top.

10:30am 2nd dose 8mg
Frustration, banging, shouting before this dose.

11:15am
Aggression. Caught her watching the shows that give her negative feelings/thoughts. She got aggressive w/ me so I took her phone & put the timer on it for when she can have it back.

12pm
She’s been whining/crying/being aggressive for the last 45mins because I took her phone.

Lunch: Mixed rice w/ lentils, mixed veggies, garlic, pink Himalayan salt & turmeric.

3pm 3rd dose 8mg

5:21pm
Today has been a rough day. Lots of meltdowns from me taking her phone away. I gave her the phone back about an hour after she was done her lunch.

5:30pm
Dinner: she liked the veggie rice we had for lunch so she wanted it again. She’s calm right now. Light face smacking.

6pm
There’s company over upstairs & there’s lots of talking/laughing so she was getting agitated. (Thinking of getting her earplugs to see if that helps. She has noise cancelling headphones but she won’t wear them.)

6:50pm
Happy sounds. She’s been pretty good for the last bit. Light face smacking. She actually hasn’t been doing the face smacking as much today. Still trying to bang her head though. Banging on the wall is a bit harder to do now (I moved the furniture).

8pm 4th dose 20mg (testing out this bedtime dose)

9pm
Happy sounds. She’s calm.

24/05/2022

We made these sweet treats this morning to bring to our potluck Victoria Day bbq and they were a hit. My grandma used to make these for us when I was a kid. They’re called peanut butter confetti squares. Usually they’re made with butterscotch chips and butter but we made these ones dairy free and used the fudge recipe from the other day to substitute the butterscotch chips/butter. Sooo goood! Happy long weekend!

INGREDIENTS

▢ 1 cup of peanut butter
▢ 1/4 cup of organic honey
▢ 1/4 cup of coconut oil
▢ 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
▢ 1/4 cup of organic coconut sugar
▢ 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
▢ 1 bag of mini coloured marshmallows

Combine all the ingredients (except the marshmallows) in a bowl. Put it in in the microwave for 1 minute (or boil it down on the stovetop) and stir until all the sugar is dissolved. Let it sit for a few minutes to cool (so that the marshmallows don’t melt in the mixture). Add in the marshamellows and stir them into the mixture. Then poor it all into a parchment paper lined pan and let it cool in the fridge for a couple hours.

22/05/2022

Day 5 of giving my daughter, who’s autistic, cbd isolate to help relieve her anxiety/self-hitting/aggression.

Last night I gave her last dose at 9pm. She fell asleep on her own but still kinda late. She woke up banging the walls & she was aggressive.

8am 1st dose 7mg
Breakfast: rice crispies w/ vanilla oat milk & a banana.

11am 2nd dose 7mg
She was pretty good all morning until now. I went outside for a few minutes & came back to her banging on the walls & having aggression towards me.

11:11am
She’s been calm since I gave her the 2nd dose.

11:50am
Agitation with the noise outside. Someone is playing their music. Aggression out of nowhere, complaining about the noise.

12:15pm
Lunch: white bean & kale soup w/ Mary’s organic seeds crackers and GF toast. Her throat has been scratchy so I added turmeric & oil of oregano to her soup.

1pm
Calm.

2pm
She’s a bit agitated today. Not as much face smacking or banging on the walls but she’s more aggressive today than she has been since starting the cbd isolate.

3pm 3rd dose 7mg

3:15pm
She’s been aggressive a couple times in the last bit and still banging the walls (not as frequently but she found a way to still bang on them.

3:35pm
She’s feeling better now and she’s calm.

5pm
Dinner: omelette w/ peppers, onions, garlic, portobello mushrooms, spinach and a side of falafels with tahini.

There was lots of people going through the house and lots of talking. She was sitting in the middle of it all and was cool through it!

5:45pm
Short outbursts of aggression. She comes out of it faster though.

6:30pm 4th dose 7mg
Sitting outside and she was ok for a while then all the noises outside started bothering her. The neighbour (who was standing beside Devon) was calling her daughter & accidentally shouted in Devon’s ear. Devon got upset & started banging on the table, trying to bang her head off the table & she got aggressive with me, hitting/grabbing/pinching. She calmed down once I took her inside where it was quiet.

7:30pm-9:30pm
She’s been calm for the last couple hours.

21/05/2022

We made a little gluten-free chocolate walnut cake with whipped icing in the middle for our dessert. It’s the perfect amount of sweetness and the walnuts give it a soft crunch. It’s sooo goood!

18/05/2022

Day 4 of trying cbd isolate for my daughter’s autism symptoms of stress/anxiety/self-hitting/aggression. It’s been helping a lot so far and it’s only Day 4. I’m still trying to figure out which dose works best for her & what times I should give it to her.

7:30am 1st dose 7mg
Breakfast: tangerine. Her throat was scratchy this morning & she’s being more aggressive.

She seems to bang the walls more when I’m not in the room with her but not as much when I’m in the room w/ her.

10:30am
She’s doing better. She was hungry again so I made her gf toast with vegan cream cheese & a GF vegan peanut butter/banana/flax seeds/oats/vanilla oat milk smoothie.

11:30am 2nd dose 7mg
She’s been getting agitated before lunch so I’m trying this dose earlier to see if it helps.

11:40
Short aggression. I caught her watching a show that makes her feel angry/aggressive so that might explain why she’s been more aggressive than usual today.

12pm
She’s doing well, she’s calm. Hardly any banging or face smacking.

1:11pm
She’s been doing well for the last while. No banging on the walls (as soon as I wrote this she knocks on the wall lol.) she’s calm though.

1:55pm
Just started banging the walls but there was no banging on it until now.

2:10pm
Face smacking again but she’s not agitated.
3:30pm 3rd dose 7mg

5pm
Dinner: vegan Buffalo cauliflower bites, vegan Mac & cheese and toast with Daiya cream cheese.

9:30pm 4th dose, last bedtime dose 9mg
She was good all night. I moved the furniture to make it harder for her to hit the walls and it kind of worked. She’s still trying to do it but she can’t reach the wall to bang on it as hard. We’re going for a walk. Hopefully she’s tired when we get back.

18/05/2022

We haven’t baked anything in a few days (I gained 5lbs from all the sweet treats we’ve been making and all the midnight snacks I’ve been having lol) so I’m posting a pic of some vegan berry ice cream that we made a while ago as a reminder that we need to make more of this deliciousness.

Devon actually researched and learned how to make this all by herself and she adjusted the original vanilla ice cream recipe to make it a berry vegan ice cream instead (made with coconut milk, sugar, vanilla extract and mixed berries). She loves it! 😋 Might try making this recipe with some organic coconut sugar instead to make it a little healthier.

18/05/2022

Day 3 of giving my autistic daughter CBD isolate to relieve her anxiety/self-hitting/aggression.

She’s still having a hard time falling asleep at night. Woke up this morning agitated banging the walls. Trying to pinch me (not as hard as usual - she stopped herself from pinching harder.)

8:30am 1st dose 6mg
Breakfast: Chex cereal w/ coconut yogurt, strawberries & blueberries.

10am
Feeling more relaxed this morning but still some bouts of frustration & wall banging. Head banging a couple times, not as hard. Not really face slapping right now.

10:30am
Happy sounds/smiling.

11am
No banging for 30mins.

11:33am
She went an hour without banging the walls. She just started banging the walls a bit now.

12:12pm 2nd dose 6mg
Lunch: egg sandwich w/ spinach & mayo.

1:30pm
Occasional face smacking but better than before. Her agitation isn’t lasting as long & they’re less aggressive. Focusing better w/o getting agitated. More gaps between “outbursts”.

2pm
Frustration & crying at the sound she was hearing. Maybe she’s banging the walls to block the sound?

2:44pm
She’s been doing well for the last 45mins.

3pm half dose 3mg
The kids come home at this time so I’m giving her an extra half dose for her anxiety over the noises.

4pm
Half dose helped! 🙂 She’s calm. Wall banging is less frequent.

5pm
Calm. Short outbursts of frustration/aggression because she hears talking outside/upstairs (didn’t last long.)

5:45pm
Calm.

6pm
Dinner: GF vegan spiral Mac & Cheese mixed w/ basil pesto, red & white potatoes boiled w/ garlic & mixed w/ tahini, lemon, Himalayan pink salt, black pepper & a spinach & tangerine salad. I sprinkled nutritional yeast over everything.

7pm 4th dose 6mg

8pm
Doing well. Got frustrated a couple times. She’s having more control over her emotions when it happens, deescalating faster & I’m able to calm her down easier.

11pm half dose 3mg.

I am grateful 4 progress!

17/05/2022

We made peanut butter fudge yesterday to have for our dessert. We had it after lunch and it was melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

INGREDIENTS

▢ 1 cup of peanut butter
▢ 1/4 cup of organic honey
▢ 1/4 cup of coconut oil
▢ 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
▢ 1/2 cup of organic coconut sugar
▢ 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and stir. Put it in the microwave for 1min (or stove top until it all melts). Stir it until the sugar has dissolved (I didn’t let mine completely dissolve and it kind of separated to the bottom when it cooled and it tasted caramelly and a bit grainy but sooo goood!