Understanding Autism

Understanding Autism

Autism remains one of the most challenging conditions in the modern society. It increases very first thus affecting more children every other day. It impairs the mental development of the children making them less important society members. There has been high-level research carried out to determine the causes, the management models and the possible treatment of the condition. However, it remains a great challenge to handle the condition due to its lack of a direct medical cure. Such children develop learning and work difficulties. Though at times, such children may just remain normal, the state of success a person achieves depends on how early the condition is identified and the kind of care that the person is put through. Some people have made tremendous improvements in handling their autistic conditions, but some people who identified the condition late always struggle to recover from the symptoms and the impacts. This paper explores the meaning of autism the predisposing conditions and ways of its management. It looks at the early signs of the autistic condition is a child and gives a personal 4expernce with the condition.

Meaning Of Autism
Autism is a condition that is neither an illness nor disease but a spectrum state that arises from the hampered brain development of an individual especially during infancy and early childhood. For a long time, the causes of autism have remained a mystery, but the development of the modern medical fields and technology can reveal that cause arises from the genetical changes and mutations that can reduce the level of brain formation.

It is one of the greatest health concerns in modern America as its rate of growth surpasses most health conditions like AIDS, cancer and diabetes combined. It is initially identified in children, with boys having a higher prevalence compared to girls at the ration of 4:1. Autism is a life condition that is costing the America government and other governments across the globe fortune in maintenance and research. It remains non-curable but manageable from early detection through the development of management strategies targeted and the manifesting symptoms like behavior modification and learning. Learning about autism is useful in making curated knowledge base that can aid in the future management of the condition.
1-Difficulties in social relationship
Individual inability to develop and maintain a social friendship is another common case among most children with ASD. This is the reason why many believe the children are always antisocial and cannot make lasting relationships. Their level of sensitivity also varies with few being oversensitive while others may not show sense responses at all. In such a case, they may have no interest in people at all and have 40% higher chances of leaving the safe environments involuntarily. Therefore, some people take their condition as a lack of interest in creating and maintaining a social friendship.
2-failure to use eye contact and gesture.
Children diagnosed with the ASD condition always tend to lack eye contact. They normally feel stressed when they are forced to make eye contact with other people. However, the children with autism conditions may also not be interested in following gestures. When they are told to look into a given direction, they ignore because they are poor in following directions, and prefer to keep on doing what they find most easy a deterministic behavior.
3-Lack of social and emotional /friendship
For some victims, they may show high-level interest in people but their inability to have discernable speech bars them from making contact or maintaining the friendship. They may appear insensitive to other people’s feeling or even express their feelings to others, thus making them difficult to manage in case they have transient conditions that would require diagnoses based on their feelings and conditions. The children with autism conditions inherently feel inadequate and would, therefore, try to avoid the conditions that make the main person of interest. Therefore they avoid friends and fail to recognize other people’s emotions and care towards them
4-Lack Of Sharing
People with ASD do not share, partly because they don’t have reliable friends to communicate their feelings, and also because they lack the bet way to express themselves before sharing. People may, therefore, consider the people with autism to be selfish, while in a real sense, they lack a way to show that they care. Sometimes person closer to them may notice that they are distracted even from a very important concept that they are supposed to be concentrating. On realizing the situation, they may feel scared. Therefore, the prefer to keep what they have to themselves and avoid sharing with the people near them
B-Difficulties in Communication
5-language delay
In areas of the impacts prevalence, up to 40% of the children with ASD related conditions lack the ability to express themselves in clear words. However, within the first two years of age, the organization goes ahead to clarify that up to 30% of the children with the autism conditions have the same number of words as normal children, but they lose the language capabilities over time. Unlike other popular views, the national autism association organization assets that the autistic condition is treatable and believes that after such treatments, language regain is possible with time (Nationalautismassociation, 2016). National Autistic Society, however, the underlying principle is that early detection and beginning the focused management of the condition is the beginning of success in the development of autism in the society.
6-repetitive language
Most of the people diagnosed with ASD conditions may lack the ability to explore different activities and values, and thus stick to one particular thing that they know how to do well. Therefore, they repetitively do the designated activity over and over gain even when it is already done. The inability to change the focus of attention among the people living with ASD can be attributed to the repetitive and rigid behaviors.
7-Preference for routines
The children remain deterministic in behavior, repeating the same behaviors over and over again, and having difficulties in adjusting to the changes in their environmental set ups.
8-Motor mannerism
Children diagnosed with ASD have shown problems with motor coordination. They are slow to react to situations. Moreover, they may have muscular related problems depending on the individual differences. Other areas where poor motor coordination manifests to some people is the poor physical heath related problems. The children may record low abilities to digest food, sleep-related problems among many other no differentiated conditions that may be unique to each person.
9-Sensory abnormalities
The sensory coordination and usage among the children with autism are very poor. This can be attributed to the low brain development followed by most children diagnosed with the ASD condition show different degrees of intellectual ability impairments that further translates and show in the different levels of impairments in the sensory abnormalities.
D-How common is Autism has become?
10-Public awareness of autism
Before the year 2013, autism was considered different mental conditions that people faced including autistic disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), childhood disintegrative disorder or Asperger syndrome. However, Autism Speak’s publication of 2016 combined all the condition into Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a way of finding a better way to manage the conditions under one umbrella. However, the management of the people with ASD remains varied according to their specific condition that an individual faces, as well as the severity of each condition. Most of the ASD conditions are categorized into mental health issues which are in many cases most severe and learning disabilities which are in many cases most common (Billstedt, 2000).

11- Earliest Signs of Autism
Children who cannot respond to their names yet they are of the right age for that may cause an alarm for the possible cases of autism. If they do not follow gestures like waving for a bye or greeting and avoid making eye contact, then the child can be made to seek medical attention fo the diagnosis of the possible case of autism.
12-Early intervention
The cognition is also proving to be one of the most difficult to contain in the modern society, ranking on the level of diabetes and cancer. US uses averagely $236-262 billion in the management of the conditions related to ASD annually. Most of the costs go to handling the ASD conditions prevalent in adults, at an average of $175-196 billion, and a further average of $61-66 billion goes into handling the children cases. The state speculates that the costs of the lifelong care of the people with autism would be reduced by up to 67% if autism were diagnosed in them when they were still young. This shows that early identification and diagnosis is not only beneficial to the ASD victims, but also affects government and the people of the country as well since late diagnosis remains highly expensive to handle and to sustain (Myers, 2007).
E-Treatment
13-Medical assistance
The children diagnosed with autism may qualify for the medical care schemes in America. However, this is dependent on the level of the autism severity. Moreover, medical attention can be given to the child depending on their type of ASD diagnosed. Combined with therapy solutions, many autistic children may turn out to be normal in the society.
14-Family, teachers, and peer support
European children who are living autism conditions sometimes in it hard to attend to schools and classes due to their autistic conditions. Up to 34% of those diagnosed with the conditions pointed out that they fear being selected to answer questions while at school, according to the report CITATION The16 l 1033 (The National Autistic Society, 2016). Further, the disparity in the need to provide quality education to such children remains a major challenge as up to 63% of the European parents of children with autism attests that the schools where they learn do not offer supporting roles required for their learning conditions. The organization further states that discipline cases leading to suspension have reached out to up to 17% of the children diagnosed with autism, with a further 48% of the cases having repeat instances. At the place of work, the European Organization reports that only 16% of adults with autism in the UK are in full-time employment despite the high number of 32% who have expressed interest in getting such opportunities.
F-Personal Experiences
In the neighborhood, it is always possible to come to a cross children who has autism. The one I came across was very solitary and could manage to focus on one particular activity, standing by the roadside for very long time. It is a serious condition that would need careful attention in event case.
Conclusion
ASD health condition is the fastest rising disability ahead of diabetes, cancer and aids in America and across the globe. Its economic and financial impacts have been very dire in the community. It has been very challenging to handle the ASD conditions especially in adults who did not get diagnosed during their early days. ASD conditions affect individuals differently, though boys have a higher prevalence than girls. The impacts that ASD may cause in people may manifest in areas of speech and communications, sensing of the environment, concentrating and difficulties in motor coordination. The conditions remain challenging to fully manage in the individual through early diagnosis and commencement of the management needs will always improve a person’s level of adaptability. It is a condition that knows no economic, social, religious or racial alienation of an individual.

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