Sometimes I wonder what they think, the autistic kids. All alone and lonely, all locked up in a world of their own, never able to communicate like the rest of us, or be communicated with. It has got to be a horrible life. I really do admire the courage that those kids need to have to be able to live the way that they do, and I would never love for that to happen to anyone that I know, friend or foe. But if it does happen, it’s not the end of the world.
There are a lot of symptoms that you can attribute to autism, and I mean besides the staring into space and the inability to communicate. You are likely to find an autistic child constantly repeating certain actions or behaviors, such as rocking gently or gesticulating in a general direction. Without special training, you’d never be able to even guess what that was all about. That is why I readily doff my hat off for a parent who has to live with that every day of their lives.
You will have to have spent substantial time with an autistic child to know how to communicate with them. They have every bit the same feelings and emotions that you have, only that they are having trouble getting across to you and vice versa. And so you know that the child is perhaps trying to tell you something like ‘I love you,’ when they nod in the other direction, or that ‘I want to pee’ when they are staring at the ceiling. Talk about awkward, but it’s not the end of the world. Autistic kids are still kids.
Sometimes you can tell that a child is autistic all the way from their first or second year as infants, and sometimes you’d never even guess until they were a few good years older. And then there might be times when the symptoms subside somewhat during the course of their lives, but at other times, the person could remain like that all the way to old age. So when you find that a relative of yours is autistic, you had better begin to prepare for the long haul.
Sure, it makes sense to believe that something will have to be wrong with a child’s brain to cause them to become autistic. However this might not be the case, even though the protracted studies tend to suggest it. Basically, most folks, professionals included, tend to simply accept the verdict that autism is associated with abnormalities in the functioning of the child’s brain, but this does not even scratch the surface of a solution to the problem.
When you have an autistic child in the family, the whole lot of you are saddled with some very special challenges. Helping the child with the things that they want and the things that they need are going to be a full time job for everyone as there is not yet any known cure to the malady. And what’s more, you might have to fight it out the whole of the rest of your life.
Drawing from the opinion that there are even more silent versions of autism around us than we are aware of, there are sincere fears that more kids suffer from the ailment in this country than are known or diagnosed. Some professionals genuinely believe that American kids that live with autism to some degree must number somewhere around 1 in 150, or perhaps about 560,000 children, which is an alarming figure. But the good news about it all today is that there’s some kind of solution to handling kids with autism that didn’t exist years ago.
Today, there is an increased awareness of the disorder that affects the social, behavioral, and emotional development of children; that disorder is autism. Naturally, the medical community does come first, and then the media, and finally the regular citizens like you and me. At one time most people hardly even knew that the condition existed, but today, you know to leave them alone when you run into them because you know that they must be having a hard time reaching out. Thankfully there are now better ways of handling people with autism.
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