Author: Aviva Seigler

Aviva Seigler is the executive director at Fierce Autistics and Allies. She is a writer, an activist, and an advocate. She is an LGBTQ+ autistic from South Florida, is married to a very supportive husband, and has six children. She has been fighting the CD protocol and other quack treatments since 2014. She is a veterinary technologist (LPN for pets). She has her associates and bachelors degree in Veterinary Technology from St. Petersburg College. She is very involved with scouting with her six children. Three of the children are autistic but all are Neurodivergent. Her hope is to bridge the gap between allies and autistics while fighting the pseudoscience that threatens all people, not just autistics.
Anti Vax Quacks, Autism One Quacks, quacks

Quack Exposed: Dr. Michael W. Elice

Aviva Seigler

Dr. Michael Elice is a board-certified pediatrician who claims to treat autistic people, mitochondrial disorders, PANDAS, immune and metabolic dysregulation. This treatment is based on the theory that autism and related conditions are complex neurodevelopmental disorders with genetic, biochemical and immunological origins. This makes them to be autoimmune disorders. Autism is not an autoimmune disease.… Continue reading Quack Exposed: Dr. Michael W. Elice

In the media, quackery, scouting

Interview with Aut-ish on Discourse, Pseudoscience and Scouting

Aviva Seigler

https://autish.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/aut-ish-episode-14-discourse-special-guest-amanda-seigler-fierce-autie/ Accessibility notice and Intro Music – 00:00-00:25For more accessibility, feel free to read the transcript as you listen. Available at: https://autish.wordpress.com OnikageHello, and welcome to the Aut-Ish podcast. My name is Onikage. And this Autism podcast, like my blog provides various autistic content. I am autistic myself and I want to promote acceptance, and to… Continue reading Interview with Aut-ish on Discourse, Pseudoscience and Scouting

Anti Vax Quacks, Autism One Quacks, quacks

Quack Exposed: Melissa Easton

Aviva Seigler

Melissa Easton is a holistic health practitioner. She is also the mother of two autistic children who she believes to be vaccine injured. Her sons were diagnosed in 2016. As soon as this happened, she started researching "natural healing options to help recover them." She had the idea that parents who wanted to recover their… Continue reading Quack Exposed: Melissa Easton

quackery, quackery myths

Quack Myth: Lyme Disease causes Autism

Aviva Seigler

The view of the Lyme-Induced Autism Foundation (LIAF) is that it induces autism in children. They claimed that up to 90% of autistic children are infected with Borrelia. There is no peer viewed studies that support this claim. According to the American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF), having an ELISA or Western Blot blood test is not… Continue reading Quack Myth: Lyme Disease causes Autism

ABA quackery, quackery

Quack Exposed: Tami Duncan

Aviva Seigler

Tami Duncan is the mother of two children. For twelve years she had tried different biomedical treatments and therapies. She had suffered from Lyme disease. She thinks she awakened her own "spiritual gifts." She started to think she is a spiritual healer after taking one reiki class. She says she can communicate with autistic children… Continue reading Quack Exposed: Tami Duncan