Translated from the French original. Texts and views by julespeter dorval. Read the French original

Articles and reflections · Text by julespeter dorval

Knowing how to welcome the (AS) child

Manuscript · pages 140–141

Knowing how to welcome the (AS) child

From birth, the entire organism is placed under strain and rapidly tips into imbalance.

In the past, many civilisations possessed the knowledge and appropriate ways of caring for a newborn. The child was carried against the back until a certain age, and everything was regulated: food, living environment, learning and everyday actions.

Today, the child arrives in a noisy world, with an often unbalanced diet, unsuitable support and learning methods that do not suit them. The mother carrying her child is herself dependent on carbohydrates and exposed to pesticides and heavy metals. The parents' nervous systems are under intense pressure, which affects the child. Our AS child, endowed with an extremely refined and sensitive brain, thus encounters many disturbances from prenatal life onwards.

For centuries, AS people remained outside the scope of scientific research: in the absence of visible disorders, they were ignored, and when difficulties arose, they were often taken for disabled people or declared “mad”.