Autism

Autism is a behavior disorder, characterized by impairment in social communication, social interaction, and social imagination. Those with autism often have a restricted range of interests and display repetitive behaviors and mannerisms, along with altered reactions to the everyday environment. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around them. Children and adults with autism are unable to relate to others in a socially meaningful way.

Different people with autism can have very different symptoms. Health care providers think of autism as a “spectrum” disorder, a group of disorders with similar features. One person may have mild symptoms, while another may have serious symptoms. But they both have an autism spectrum disorder. It is well known that autism occurs in differing degrees of severity and in a variety of forms. The term's Spectrum and Continuum of disorders are commonly used to group people together that have a shared difficulty in making sense of the world.

Their ability to develop friendships is impaired, as is their capacity to understand other people's feelings. People with autism can often have accompanying learning disabilities. There is also a condition called Asperger's syndrome, which many experts - but by no means all - believe falls at the higher-functioning end of the autistic spectrum. All people with autism have impairments in social interaction, social communication and imagination.

This is referred to as the triad of impairments, Social interaction like difficulty with social relationships means appearing aloof and indifferent to other people. Then Social communication like difficulty with verbal and non-verbal communication that means not really under-standing the meaning of gestures, facial expressions or tone of voice and Flexibility in thinking and behaving like difficulty in the development of play and imagination that means having a limited range of imaginative activities, possibly copied and pursued rigidly and repetitively.