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Article #19: Most common features of autism

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The autistic disorder is mainly avoid eye contact; autistic patients like
characterized by the impaired social to be alone, resist affection or accept
interaction as well as by the refusal of hugs passively. Parents are most
the patients to respond to their names or affected by the child's lack of attention
react to other people's eye contact. or joy at their sight.
Autistic children can hardly integrate These patients tend to live a wildly
voices and usually look for facial life as facial expressions or gestures do
expressions to give them cues about the not mean anything. They hardly get to
behavior. They are unable to understand understand the feelings or wishes of
or show feelings and their behavior has a others and usually respond only to
negative impact on the others. routine questions or cues as they are
Most of them cannot express themselves unable to differentiate different
by voice; the ones who do that will refer people's actions and feelings. Autistic
to their own person by name instead of disorder makes patients resist changes in
"me" or "I". They engage in repetitive their routine environment and even react
actions and can even reach to aggressive by breaking things, attacking
self-hurting behavior. Normally, people or hurting themselves; their
autistics do not show interest in other tendency of doing these things occurs
people's topics and talk in own favorite mostly when they are upset, angry or when
topics. something bothers them.
Autism makes his patients vulnerable to Most of the autism sufferers remain
all types of sensors. Their reduced silent during their lives; some of them
response to pain turns into anxiety while though seem to begin talking in the first
listening to an abnormal sound. They 6 months when they suddenly stop
mostly hate being touched and usually developing. Some develop delayed language
resist cuddling. Autism symptoms are skills but most of them must be taught to
developed in the first three years of communicate by signs and special
life and last life-long. The most equipments. Those who manage to learn a
important features of autism are impaired few words cannot bind them into sentences
social interaction, limited interests and and mostly use them senseless or in
actions and communication problems. The repetitive order. A characterizing
autistic disorder varies from easy forms feature of autism is echolalia making the
with children able to develop basic patients repeat words or phrase they have
language skills, to a severe form when heard even several weeks before. It
patients cannot communicate at all. usually goes by at the age of three.
The development problems beside other Autistic children confuse pronouns and
children their age start at about 18-36 change the meaning of "me" or "I"
months when they reject persons, loose according to the person speaking.
language or social skills they may have Early and proper treatment and care is
already accumulated. In time they get to essential for them to learn at least
hardly engage in social interactions and basic skills and communication means.






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