How The Mind of Autistic Individuals Compares and Contrasts from that of Neurotypical Individuals
How The Mind of Autistic Individuals Compares and Contrasts from that of Neurotypical Individuals
Though, Autism is a common disorder, which affects one in eighty-eight children, not many people are aware of the differences between an autistic mind and a neurotypical mind, one without Autism (autismspeaks.org). This gap in knowledge is one that Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay helps bridge in his book How Can I Talk if My Lips Don’t Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind. By using examples from experiences in his life Tito explains to readers what development for learning and social skills was like for him, allowing us to see certain differences between his mind and the minds of neurotypicals. For most infants, twelve to eighteen months following birth, they are beginning to create one word sentences in a way to obtain things, such as “down” to get a toy from an out of reach area. Beyond eighteen months, children’s language skills develop more; by two to three years of age children are using three word combinations along with some prepositions. Five year old children have a better comprehension of syntax and may have up to a fourteen thousand word vocabulary (Parke and Gauvain, 2009, p 254-55). The timing for milestones such as these do vary from child to child, however; forty percent of children with autism do not speak and it just so happens that Tito falls into this statistic (nationalautismassociatin.org). By the age of three Tito still could not speak even basic words such as “dada” or “mama” (Mukhopadhyay, p. 1). Babblings such as these are common in infants between six to twelve months (Parke and Gauvain, 2009, p 254). It’s not as if Tito’s vocal chords did not work because in times of panic or anxiety, such as when Tito’s schema, that anytime a bird landed on the tree outside his window a person should cross the street, was proven wrong, he would react by screaming. Ensuring us that his vocal chords did indeed work (Mukhopadhyay, p 7). Though he did not speak
Though, Autism is a common disorder, which affects one in eighty-eight children, not many people are aware of the differences between an autistic mind and a neurotypical mind, one without Autism (autismspeaks.org). This gap in knowledge is one that Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay helps bridge in his book How Can I Talk if My Lips Don’t Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind. By using examples from experiences in his life Tito explains to readers what development for learning and social skills was like for him, allowing us to see certain differences between his mind and the minds of neurotypicals. For most infants, twelve to eighteen months following birth, they are beginning to create one word sentences in a way to obtain things, such as “down” to get a toy from an out of reach area. Beyond eighteen months, children’s language skills develop more; by two to three years of age children are using three word combinations along with some prepositions. Five year old children have a better comprehension of syntax and may have up to a fourteen thousand word vocabulary (Parke and Gauvain, 2009, p 254-55). The timing for milestones such as these do vary from child to child, however; forty percent of children with autism do not speak and it just so happens that Tito falls into this statistic (nationalautismassociatin.org). By the age of three Tito still could not speak even basic words such as “dada” or “mama” (Mukhopadhyay, p. 1). Babblings such as these are common in infants between six to twelve months (Parke and Gauvain, 2009, p 254). It’s not as if Tito’s vocal chords did not work because in times of panic or anxiety, such as when Tito’s schema, that anytime a bird landed on the tree outside his window a person should cross the street, was proven wrong, he would react by screaming. Ensuring us that his vocal chords did indeed work (Mukhopadhyay, p 7). Though he did not speak