Critical Cultural Issues In Autistic Di
Autism: 1. A pathological self-absorption and preoccupation with the self to the exclusion of the outside world, characteristic of some forms of *autistic disorder and *schizophrenia. 2. An alternative name for *autistic disorder. Autistic adj. [ greek auto self + -ismos indicating a state or condition.
Children with autism have misfortune in communicating. They have trouble understanding what other people contemplate and feel. This makes it very tough for them to explicit themselves either with words or through gestures, facial expressions, and touch.
A child with ASD who is very delicate may be seriously troubled -- sometimes even pained -- by sounds, touches, smells, or sights that seem usual to others.
Children who are autistic may have repetitive, stereotyped body actions such as shaking, pacing, or hand flapping. They may have uncommon responses to people, affections to objects, …show more content…
Critical Cultural Issues in Autism Disorder
4.1. Autism culture
With the recent rises in autism acknowledgement and new methods to teaching and socializing autistics, an autistic culture has begun to advance. Like deaf culture, autistic culture is founded on a more understanding belief that autism is a unique way of living and not an illness to be cured. There are some commonalities which are explicit to autism in general as a culture, not just “autistic culture”.
It is a common misunderstanding that autistic people do not walk down the aisle, many do try to find loving relationships and marry. Often, they marry another autistic, even though this is not always the situation. Autistic people are often attracted to other autistic people because of mutual interests or obsessions, but more often than not the attraction is due to simple compatibility with character types, the same as for non-autistics. Autistics who communicate have clarified that company is as important to autistics as it is to anyone else. Multigenerational autistic relatives have also lately become a bit more
Children with autism have misfortune in communicating. They have trouble understanding what other people contemplate and feel. This makes it very tough for them to explicit themselves either with words or through gestures, facial expressions, and touch.
A child with ASD who is very delicate may be seriously troubled -- sometimes even pained -- by sounds, touches, smells, or sights that seem usual to others.
Children who are autistic may have repetitive, stereotyped body actions such as shaking, pacing, or hand flapping. They may have uncommon responses to people, affections to objects, …show more content…
Critical Cultural Issues in Autism Disorder
4.1. Autism culture
With the recent rises in autism acknowledgement and new methods to teaching and socializing autistics, an autistic culture has begun to advance. Like deaf culture, autistic culture is founded on a more understanding belief that autism is a unique way of living and not an illness to be cured. There are some commonalities which are explicit to autism in general as a culture, not just “autistic culture”.
It is a common misunderstanding that autistic people do not walk down the aisle, many do try to find loving relationships and marry. Often, they marry another autistic, even though this is not always the situation. Autistic people are often attracted to other autistic people because of mutual interests or obsessions, but more often than not the attraction is due to simple compatibility with character types, the same as for non-autistics. Autistics who communicate have clarified that company is as important to autistics as it is to anyone else. Multigenerational autistic relatives have also lately become a bit more