With severe symptoms of autism, I would consider that a problem. However severe 'anything' is usually a problem.
Taken from the Geneva Centre for Autism
People with autism process and respond to information in unique ways. Common traits of autism include: • Resistance to change • Odd repetitive motions • Preference for being alone • Aversion to cuddling • Avoidance of eye contact • Inappropriate attachments to objects • Hyper-activity or under-activity • Over- or under-active sensory responsiveness • Uneven gross/fine motor skills, such as difficulty grasping objects, or dressing themselves • Repeating words or monologues • Laughing, crying, or showing distress for unapparent reasons • Unresponsive to verbal cues • Tantrums, and possible aggressive and/or self-injurious behaviour Resistance to change / preference for being alone (and all the other aversions of intimacy/contact) is pretty common in tons of people. Change is stressful for most people since it puts them outside their comfort zone
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Anyways, they say autism is on the rise and that it really isn't a surprise. Problem with these statements is that these surveys tend to look at an absolute number rather than a percentage. With the growth of a nation, all disorders would be on a rise since there are more people with the potential of having such a disorder.
This article does use a proportion, on page 2:
"But even taking these factors into account, some autism experts say the leap from a working figure of four to five cases per 10,000 children a few decades ago up to one in 150 today is too significant to be attributed to these factors alone."
I agree with Karen that people who are classified as autistic do have problems. I think that the traits of autistic kids that you pointed out wouldn't be enough to classify a child as having this condition.
I think it's kind of a vague condition, and that it's on the rise simply because there are more diagnoses. In the past, it wasn't well defined; such kids were just called 'dumb' and then forgotten. A 'spectrum' of autism is talked about, where it goes from high-level functionality in terms of mental ability all the way to classically retarded. Asperger's syndrome is an example of the high-level; previously these people would've just been called unsocial jerks.
Yes a molester in a car driving could easily identify the kid in another moving vehicle with a DS in hand would amazing me. Having the ability to use the nintendo DS and drive the car and 'seek' out a targeted child is just so dangerous (i think it is more dangerous for the molester doing that than the child in the back seat).
Seriously isn't this just as dangerous as using the internet?
There also different types of Autism. Children who have Asperger's have a very mild form of autism and just have trouble communicating... but though that seems like it is not that big of a deal, it actually is for that child. I personally know someone who has Asperger's and if you met him, you would probably never know but he is affected by it everyday. I know what you mean though, how these symptoms seem normal and there is actually an association of people with Autism who are stating that they do not have an illness or whatever you want to call it, that they are just different and there is nothing to it. I guess you really have to look at it case by case -- as you need to for every disorder, really.
And yeah, Autism is a spectrum disorder like someone mentioned before so the symptoms are very varied. I recently read a book about Asperger's and the poor child was bounced from doctor to doctor and no one diagnosed him correctly until he was in his 20s, I believe... so a lot of doctors in the past did not understand these symptoms and that would help explain the rise in diagnosis these days because we have done more research since then.
Autism is a subject I've always been really interested in. I volunteered at a camp for kids with disabilities and met this young girl there who had autism. She did not speak and because no one understood her, she would be very violent and grab and hit to get attention. She stole my heart though... I just felt so frustrated for her because she couldn't get out what she wanted. From that day on, it had always been a subject I wanted to learn more about so I was really excited when you posted this entry about it!
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And maybe if you met a child with autism and his or her parents, you would get what the problem is.
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Taken from the Geneva Centre for Autism
People with autism process and respond to information in unique ways. Common traits of autism
include:
• Resistance to change
• Odd repetitive motions
• Preference for being alone
• Aversion to cuddling
• Avoidance of eye contact
• Inappropriate attachments to objects
• Hyper-activity or under-activity
• Over- or under-active sensory responsiveness
• Uneven gross/fine motor skills, such as difficulty grasping objects, or
dressing themselves
• Repeating words or monologues
• Laughing, crying, or showing distress for unapparent reasons
• Unresponsive to verbal cues
• Tantrums, and possible aggressive and/or self-injurious behaviour
Resistance to change / preference for being alone (and all the other aversions of intimacy/contact) is pretty common in tons of people. Change is stressful for most people since it puts them outside their comfort zone ( ... )
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This article does use a proportion, on page 2:
"But even taking these factors into account, some autism experts say the leap from a working figure of four to five cases per 10,000 children a few decades ago up to one in 150 today is too significant to be attributed to these factors alone."
I agree with Karen that people who are classified as autistic do have problems. I think that the traits of autistic kids that you pointed out wouldn't be enough to classify a child as having this condition.
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Yes a molester in a car driving could easily identify the kid in another moving vehicle with a DS in hand would amazing me. Having the ability to use the nintendo DS and drive the car and 'seek' out a targeted child is just so dangerous (i think it is more dangerous for the molester doing that than the child in the back seat).
Seriously isn't this just as dangerous as using the internet?
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Autism is a subject I've always been really interested in. I volunteered at a camp for kids with disabilities and met this young girl there who had autism. She did not speak and because no one understood her, she would be very violent and grab and hit to get attention. She stole my heart though... I just felt so frustrated for her because she couldn't get out what she wanted. From that day on, it had always been a subject I wanted to learn more about so I was really excited when you posted this entry about it!
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