2nd April: World Autism Awareness Day!!!

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What is AUTISM?

Autism is a mental disabilities that leads to great difficulty in communicating, forming relationships with other people by means of using language and abstract concepts.


Research has shown that there are more autistic people in Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. One out of 100 people is found with autism.

Autism is also known as the "hidden disability" because you cannot tell if someone has autism by only looking at them.

Autism is a life time mental condition.....

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Difficulties Faced by Autistic People

Autism is a mental condition, which is noticed and seen from an early stage of a child..

Some Difficulties Faced by Autistic People, though these difficulties varies in light of facts that a person with autism differ from the other.

1. Meeting new people and making new friends.
2. They can comprehend peoples thought and feelings..
3. Bullying from peers and schoolmates.
4. They communicate their needs and wants.

Causes of Autism

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The cause of autism has not been ascertain... So if you have a child with autism doesn't mean you are in anyway bad as a parent.
It could be passed from family genetic.

What to Know About People With Autism?
Things to know about people with autism;

1. They hardly give an eye contact.
2. They may mimic your words.
3. They sometimes repeat words over and over again.
4. They may not speak.
5. They act as if they are with imaginary friends or object.
6. They may not comprehend what you say to them.
7. They may communicate in sign language or using pictures and images.
8. They sometime have good retention  memory, which help them remember events and information.
9. They may like to do a particular thing as an everyday routine.
10. They may have difficulties in learning...
11. They may be good with skills like music, maths or art.
12. They may have challenge with coordination as the may absent minded or moving their hands in a particular way.