What Autism Means to Me :

What is Autism to Me?

Autism to me is a number of things a learning experience that has truly taught me the value of not caring what others think, when you’re out

with your c children and they begin to get busy, sometimes you see others either just ignore you or some may stare, for those you just have to

realize that they may be just misinformed on what they are seeing.  Many children and adults don’t lack mental capabilities but lack social skills

and you better trust and believe people with autism understand most of what’s taking place in their surroundings ( for my son he knows very well

and will act upon it and use it  to his advantage) .

The current statistics show that autism affects 1 out of every 150 children and growing. Is this a conspiracy?  Is this and epidemic? That topic

can be discussed later for now let’s focus on t he rise of children being affected and how it has taken hold over families across America. In my

household autism is the truth and the light we forget as we become adults the worries the cares the expectations that we have for ourselves and

our children and how we view the world and  our society today with various disorders to go around two or three times.

The History of autism I have read that the term autism has been around for 100 hundred years and they have broken down the term auto

into autism meaning one’s self hence how autism is affected in the social area of development although they tend to act differently in this area

they certain don’t lack mental knowledge. “Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist first coined the term autism he started to refer to a group back

in 1914 of individuals that display schizophrenia” Where does that leave us? I began to learn about autism in 2005 that equals to 111 years of

progress and they still betray autism and research like it’s something new. As a child growing up of course you heard of the handicapped, and

different types of mental disorders and the most common one you hear about is ADHD where was autism?, kept under the rug I presume. In the

1940’s has researchers and doctors began to look further in the United States a Doctor by the name of Hans Asperger and about the same time

another Dr. who studied at John Hopkins University began to study a group of children that had problems with social development. In the 1960’s

and 70’s what appeared to be brutal treatments and some behavior techniques were introduced. Finally in the 1980’s and on the treatment s

involving therapy base and controlled learning environments became a new look for autism.

Still a long road ahead, even with the research that has been ongoing since the 1900’s and the misinformed link to schizophrenia and autism

is very disturbing. Autism symptoms can vary from hand and arm, flapping, lack of communication and social interaction, sensory perceptions of

items and their environment, and social interactions the most common is language which I have watched my daughter’s carefully and ( they are

doing well) Thank God because it is very hard and costly to raise a special needs child . Today autism and related disorders have been clustered

into one PDD Pervasive Development Disorder there is still much work to be done.  Lastly autism means that the way you view the world is

definitely unlike a child with autism they do not care what people think o them ( my son is happy, he , smiles, plays with his sisters and loves to

watch movies like a typical “normal kid”  “ I am autism I don’t care what others think of me.”

-Resources- http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/history-of-autism

March 25, 2011. Autism Info/ Awareness, Variety Articles. Leave a comment.