| For unexplained reasons, autistic children show | | | | Many are bothered by the touch of the clothes on |
| obsessions to particular objects, sometimes even a | | | | their skin and cannot concentrate on anything else |
| strange kind of attachment towards them, and act | | | | and others resist cuddling as a damaging action. |
| by repetitive senseless actions. Their repetitive | | | | Gentle hugs are overwhelming for them and they |
| behavior has been given more potential explanation; | | | | resist any affection attempt. Sounds caused by |
| some scientists see it as an attempt to maintain | | | | vacuum cleaner, telephone, airplane or wind evoke |
| stability in their own world, others say it is an essay | | | | screams and the children cover their years. |
| to use their well developed functions or on the | | | | Scientists believe their hearing level is turned on |
| contrary to develop a lower function. | | | | maximum and they hear any slow sound at super |
| This strange repetitive behavior also limits their | | | | loud level. This is the reason for them ignoring sounds |
| imaginative play options. Normally developed children | | | | and acting like deaf in spite of their normal hearing |
| like to pretend they are someone else and give a | | | | sense. The brain is also unable to equilibrate |
| toy many other uses. But autistics do not like to | | | | sensations in a realistic way so they ignore extreme |
| pretend or play with toys, they simply smell, analyze | | | | cold or pain but react aggressively to perfectly |
| and touch it continuously for several hours. | | | | normal things. A simple light can provoke hysteria |
| Autism impedes children to create an objective and | | | | while breaking an arm can pass unnoticed. Sometimes |
| real opinion of the world as they cannot use their | | | | senses are scrambled inside their brain and they hear |
| senses in a benefic way. Sensor perceptions like | | | | a sound while being touched or when seeing a certain |
| seeing, hearing or touching create a disturbed even | | | | texture or color. |
| painful sensation for the autistic child and lead to | | | | Maybe in order to compensate their many difficulties |
| confusion. Information collected by all senses never | | | | and defaults, some autistic patients have |
| merges into a coherent picture that might help them | | | | extraordinary abilities like drawing three-dimensional |
| perceive a normal reality. The causes of these | | | | realistic pictures at a very young age, or begin to |
| problems seem to be disturbed signals that get to | | | | read perfectly at the age of two. Other children can |
| the brain or on the other hand a wrong integration of | | | | play an instrument they have never heard before, |
| the sensory signals. Most accepted theory is the | | | | remember exact dates, being able to perform rapidly |
| contribution of both pathological variants to the | | | | very complex operations names and numbers, sing a |
| autistic disorder. | | | | song they have only heard once and memorize entire |
| As a result to a disturbed brain function, autistics | | | | books or television series. But such intelligence skills |
| receive signals like smells, light or sound as painful. | | | | are very rare encountered. |