How To Recognize Autism

Symptoms of Autism:-

Knowing that those symptoms may vary from one person to another, except mainly there are some common traits and they are mentioned in details herewith:

1. Impairments in social interaction.

2. Impairments in communication.

3. Restricted interests & repeated activities.

4. Atypical response to sensory issues (Touch, smell, eyesight, sound).

5. Some display aggressive behavior (head banging or biting themselves).

Impairments in social interaction:-

Avoiding eye-eye contact.

Disability to understand feelings of others or face expressions.

Failure to establish a friendship with other children.

Having no interest in sharing enjoyment or any kinds of interest with others.

Impairments in communication:-

Delay or lack of learning language.

Difficulty in continuing a conversation after it has started.

Stereotyped and repetitive use of language.

Repeating as several times phrases have heard previously.

Unable to understand others’ implied meanings as they understand only literally talk.

Restricted interests & repeated activities:-

Preoccupation with certain toy or even parts of it and ignoring the whole toy.

Atypical behavior in eating that shows in eating rituals and/or food refusal and for that reason most of autistic children are suffering form malnutrition.

Atypical response to sensory issues (Touch, smell, light, sound):-

Unusual response to physical sensations, such as to be more sensitive than usual to touch (resisting to be hugged)or to be less sensitive to pain than usual, or hearing or eyesight or smell.

To be attached to one person in particular.

Some display aggressive behavior (head banging or biting themselves):-

Behavioral disorders; such as hyperactivity, lack of concentration, difficulty in sleeping, or a severe bouts of anger, and may show a harmful behavior to themselves.

Repetitive muscle movements (flapping fingers or hands, head banging, hitting head against the wall, biting or rotation around themselves).