Be Healthy

Over the last couple of decades, the interest in, and diagnosis of the condition referred to as Autism has jumped dramatically. Until now, not many parents were truly conscious of the problem, let alone knew how to address it, or what support was obtainable. It’s not as difficult nowadays, particularly as each and every kind of treatment, is more readily available. But, since we actually have a whole world of information at our fingertips in the form of the web, it is easy to learn nearly everything that you need to know relating to autism.

Sometimes I wonder what they think, the healthy kids. All alone and lonely, all shut away in a world of their own, never able to communicate like the rest of us, or be communicated with. It has got to be a horrible life. I really do admire the courage those children need to have to be able to live the way that they do, and I would never want that to happen to anybody I know, friend or foe. But if it does happen, it is not the end of the world. There are a lot of symptoms that you can attribute to autism, and I mean besides the staring into space and the incapability to communicate. You are likely to find an autistic child forever repeating certain actions or behaviors, such as rocking gently or gesticulating in a general direction. Without proper training, you would never be able to even guess what it was all about. That is why I readily tip my hat off for a parent who has to live with that every day of their lives.

Autistic patients are likely to have what you would refer to as intense interests, but what they would perhaps consider to be something else. There is no simple way to even get to know what they are all about, only that they seem to be restricted to only certain] things or topics. And so you could go round and round and you could still be in the same spot unless you get help from someone who really knows how to deal with them. Rarely can you ever tell that a child is autistic before they reach the age of three. All the symptoms you might have noticed prior to that, you have probably put down as something else, something that infants usually have. But by the time they begin to reach that age where you are expecting a lot more communication from the child, you notice and know something is wrong.