Autism
Is a continuous disorder of nervous growth, leads to poor interaction and social communication, weak verbal communication, and restricts the patient to specific behaviors and repetitive. It is usually diagnosed before the child reaches three years, a disease with genetic basis, and is also associated with the factors that cause birth defects. The disease affects about two out of every 100 people in the world, and the rate of infection is four times higher than that of females.
Symptoms of autism
The first symptoms of the disease appear at a very early stage starting from six months, continue to prove at the age of two or three, and usually continue during puberty, and characterized by the disease of three symptoms combined in each patient, not one or two of them, these factors are:
Social interaction
This symptom shows in infants not responding to external stimuli, their lack of attention to others, their lack of smile, their lack of response when hearing their names, and when young children show difficulty in dialogue and use basic dialogue; Consider what they refer to, for example, see a hand that refers instead to a reference, and the difficulty of their social understanding, yet it is possible to have links with their caregivers.
People with autism can experience fits of anger and violence, destroy places and property more than healthy children, and always feel lonely even though they prefer to stay alone.
Communication
The majority of people with autism do not develop the basics of dialogue and discourse for daily life, suffer from delayed response, misuse pronouns, repeat what others say without understanding, find it difficult to use imaginative games or games, use symbols in language, They have difficulty understanding others’ feelings or expressing their feelings and needs.
Frequent behavior
People with physical movements, such as moving the head or the hands, some of them utter specific words or sounds, resist any kind of change, such as changing furniture, clothes or even food colors, and can also settle for some kind of harm to people Such as biting or beating, and usually prefer one type of television or gaming software.
How to deal with an autistic person
When we understand the nature of the person in front of us, it is easier for us to deal with it, so we have to know that the individual has a very difficult time starting to talk, that he understands the words literally and does not understand the lines; so we have to simplify our questions and dialogues and give him more time to understand. And that if he is in pain or distress he can not express, so we have to understand it and try to help him as much as possible.
The autistic person is very outspoken, and sometimes he may be hurtful, do not have the simplest principles of social interaction, can not flatter or try to relieve you; so we have to keep that in mind and try not to get angry or feel, To look at us while talking to him; because he can not do it.