Autism

What is Autism?

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), also known as autism, is a lifelong disability that is either congenital or occurs soon after birth.

Autism affects how people learn and how they interact with people and around them.

Signs include:

• differences in the development of social and communication skills including speech.
• have limited interests and repetitive behaviors.
• sensory differences such as sound avoidance or restlessness.
• learn and play differently from other children.

Each person diagnosed with autism may have some characteristics that are similar to the above signs, but not all are the same, hence the name autism disorder. People with autism have a wide range of abilities, behaviors, social awareness, and communication skills and can be at any age.

How is autism diagnosed?

Usually, a pediatrician, psychologist ̃or a team of professionals will complete the observation and talk with parents and sometimes with teachers. They may also ask the child to do some things to check how the child is learning. Professionals can use assessment tools and methods to see if a child is meeting the standards and from there they can diagnose an autism spectrum disorder.

How common is autism?

Research shows that 1 in 100 people has autism, and more men are diagnosed with autism than women.

What is the cause of autism?

No one knows what causes autism. Studies suggest that the cause may be a mixture of genetic and environmental factors (both before and after birth). Research also suggests that the cause may vary from person to person.

Main features of autism

How to communicate?

Adult autistic people will face problems with language, gestures, and emotional expression during communication. Facial expressions lack expression, unnatural body postures, and repetitive use of language. They often repeat more than once a word or phrase that they have heard before. They live in isolation and do not tend to make friends or talk or share with anyone, including their peers or family members. Difficulty in caring and sharing. They cannot understand the feelings of others, lack empathy.

In everyday behavior

People with autism often focus and correctly use an object that may be familiar or dramatic, such as the wheel of a car, rather than the entire thing. The act of holding onto things and not allowing others to touch them is one of the signs of autism in adults. They often focus on a certain subject and ignore the opinions or actions of others such as being fascinated by video games, trading cards, or licenses, interested in learning topics. unrealistic... Stereotypical mechanical behavior. Some patients have aggressive behavior, hyperactivity, uncontrolled emotions, and explosive outbursts.

Working

If they are still in school, people with autism have learning difficulties, slow learning, poor academic performance, and tend to isolate themselves from friends. If the patient has gone to work, he often does not complete the assigned task well, the work proceeds in a stereotypical fashion. Often offends others because people with autism have difficulty hearing and absorbing and understanding the meaning of other people's sentences.

Autism in children

Autism in children is thought to be a brain disease because of neurodevelopmental disorders (eg, changes in cerebellar, frontal, and temporal lobes, reticular activation deficiency, and birth defects. neurochemistry) due to abnormal genes. However, these issues are still hypothetical.

The rate of children diagnosed with autism in recent years tends to increase with the frequency of 1/100 children, of which typical autism accounts for 16.8%. Boys are affected 4 to 6 times more often than girls.

Is autism dangerous?

Children with autism often have developmental delays, reduced cognitive abilities, reduced communication skills, behavioral and emotional abnormalities, and various sensory disturbances. Only about 20% of children with autism can communicate and learn but still have difficulties in social relations, often have few friends, and do not like to communicate and make friends with people around. The remaining 80% of these children continue to grow up and become adults with autism, accompanied by mental retardation, epilepsy, depression, etc., so they often live in isolation and often have anxiety. haunting fear.

People with severe and incurable autism will not be able to integrate into society, not support themselves when they grow up, becoming a burden on their families and society.

Methods of intervention for adults with autism

Autism is a disorder that persists for almost a lifetime and is very difficult to treat, even when detected early, in the case of adults, it is much more difficult to treat. The patient's family plays a very important role in supporting treatment.

Psychological intervention

To be able to improve problems with language, communication, and the ability to act independently, adult autistic people must receive positive and early psychological intervention (for children, from 20-25 hours/week). However, for adult autistic people, behavioral interventions aim to build good habits, know how to control their own emotional behavior to adapt to the surrounding environment, know how to protect themselves from danger. risk and develop appropriate adaptive behaviors. During the psychological intervention, professionals will assess the strengths or weaknesses of the patient to orient a career that is suitable for the ability.

For people with autism to work and integrate into the community

Adults with mild autism can still do some things according to their ability. Family members should allow the patient to receive psychological intervention, find out the patient's strengths and let them work. Doing so will help them be close to the community and increase their ability to think, act and not be isolated from society.

Pay more attention to people with autism

For people with autism, they need more attention from family and society, relatives should talk regularly, guide perseverance, always encourage and encourage good behavior, create favorable conditions for them. interacting with people, taking them out, integrating with nature, walking, exercising, etc. It is recommended to limit letting people with autism watch TV or stay in one place.

Depending on the aptitude of each adult with autism, the following occupations may be suitable for an adult with autism as long as there is a supervisor nearby such as: Art, music, painting, computer, math Studying, doing housework, .... Regarding leisure hobbies, people with autism like music, swimming, camping, assembly, chess, chess,...

The truth about the link between genius and autism

The misunderstanding began when modern scientists published research showing that autism appeared in some world-famous geniuses such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart, Hans Christian Andersen…

Professor of psychiatry Michael Fitzgerald, of Trinity College in Ireland, says the traits associated with autism are similar to those commonly found in geniuses. He also looked at about 1,600 people with autism and many famous people in history to confirm that the link between autism, creativity, and genius is rooted in genes.

In recent years, people often talk about the link between autism and genius. It makes some people optimistic that children with autism have a better chance of being geniuses.

However, from the above studies, many people infer that all autistic people become geniuses. Although sometimes experts speak out to correct this misconception, the belief that autism = genius persists and spreads.

Amanda Batten, an expert from the UK's National Autistic Society, reminds: "Not all autistic people have the ability to become outstanding geniuses." In addition, in fact, only 5 to 10 percent of people with autism have so-called "smart abilities," such as the ability to listen to music and play without knowing the music or drawing in detail. of the building, even seeing it once. But most of the rest autistic people are not.

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