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Article #5: Obsessive and repetitive actions in autistic patients

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






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