If you know that some child has an autism - you think to yourself - this child is weird.Autistic child can't understand jokes, they are insensitive to others pain or joy. If it is an adult person, or your co-worker, nobody likes them, they are odd. Ask them to pass you a salt shaker, they'l say "yes", but won't pass you a salt shaker.Autism is a development disorder that appears in the first 3 years of the life. Do you remember the movie the "Rain man" with Dustin Hoffman. He had a talent to memorize the phone numbers from the phone book, but could not live in society and real life. But the truth is that only10% of the autistic people have the talent. Some of them can study in the school, write and read the books and live independently. The earliest symptoms appears from the birth. Autistic babies are not smiling to their mothers, they have difficulties with verbal or nonverbal communication.When growing up, they can't talk or perform repeated body movements. If something is unusual to them, they react with aggression and fear.
If you have autistic family member, you must have strict routine every day: to put clothes on in the same order (pants first then sweater), dishes must be in the same place on the table for the breakfast or dinner. If something is different, autistic person can even panic. Long time ago in Russia these kind of people were called "holly dumbs", connected with a God. Now this disease is not such a mystery, but scientists still don't know all the answers.
Autism affects boys more than girls and it is a genetic disorder. Autistic people are used to be blamed for not understanding your feelings like sadness or joy, they simply can't recognize this. We can't barely imagine our lives without a gestures or face expressions. To autistic person this is like to understand unknown foreign language.They have to learn to behave in the world like to learn ABC or grammar. You can't cure the autism. Now there are a lot of programs containing speech or musical therapy. Autistic people are learning how to behave if somebody greets them or how to react if somebody reads funny story. This is a hard job to an autistic person. So they prefer computer or Internet instead.They like to participate in virtual media games such as "Second life", which is some kind of the training program.The users of virtual world can socialize, connect together and create "families" using free voice and text chat. But the most important thing to the autistic people is to avoid their desire to dissociate from the real world.
If you have autistic family member, you must have strict routine every day: to put clothes on in the same order (pants first then sweater), dishes must be in the same place on the table for the breakfast or dinner. If something is different, autistic person can even panic. Long time ago in Russia these kind of people were called "holly dumbs", connected with a God. Now this disease is not such a mystery, but scientists still don't know all the answers.
Autism affects boys more than girls and it is a genetic disorder. Autistic people are used to be blamed for not understanding your feelings like sadness or joy, they simply can't recognize this. We can't barely imagine our lives without a gestures or face expressions. To autistic person this is like to understand unknown foreign language.They have to learn to behave in the world like to learn ABC or grammar. You can't cure the autism. Now there are a lot of programs containing speech or musical therapy. Autistic people are learning how to behave if somebody greets them or how to react if somebody reads funny story. This is a hard job to an autistic person. So they prefer computer or Internet instead.They like to participate in virtual media games such as "Second life", which is some kind of the training program.The users of virtual world can socialize, connect together and create "families" using free voice and text chat. But the most important thing to the autistic people is to avoid their desire to dissociate from the real world.
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