How Autism Affects The Brain

Autism is a spectrum condition, which means that while most people who live with autism share the same difficulties, it still affects each person differently. Autism can make it very challenging to complete tasks that you normally wouldn’t think would be challenging, such as having a conversation or keeping friendships.
Autism affects about 1.5 million people in the U.S. and each year, 24,000 infants will be diagnosed. Government statistics show that each year the rate of autism is rising between 10 and 17 percent! This is most likely because doctors are widening the spectrum of what is considered autism
Autism can severely affect the brain in many different ways. Scientists have described it as “the brain being wired wrong” so the brain misfires
information between brain cells. In other words, children's brains with autism functions differently than a brain not affected by autism. Children with autism are usually born with a normal sized brain, but though the age of 6 months and 14 months, they experience rapid brain growth. By the time they are around age 4, their brains are sometimes larger than average and much more advanced than the typical 4 year old's brain is.