Understand, accept and love: autism, signs of insidious syndrome

Over the past few decades, increasedthe number of children with a disease such as autism, the signs of this syndrome are not immediately obvious and therefore it is difficult to diagnose in the early stages. Only in the process of growing a child there is a noticeable delay in development and a lack of desire to contact family members and peers.

Signs of autism in children show up at an age1-5 years. A kid can be physically absolutely healthy and grow up real fast, but when observing behavior and his reactions to changes in his environment, you can get valuable information that makes it possible to recognize the signs of autism. In children affected by this ailment, it is not possible to identify the reasons for this deviation. But, psychologists as a hypothesis put forward a variant of rejection of the child in the family, not comfortable enough conditions for the emotional existence of the baby, his mother's non-acceptance, and an unjustified denial of his very existence in the family. But, this is only a hypothesis and confirmation, she did not find. Therefore, we can safely say that the cause of autism is not proven. And although the term "autism, signs of autism" exists since 1912, and the first serious research in this area was carried out back in 1943, we know little about this mysterious phenomenon.

Autism and its symptoms

All parents like to watch how theirthe baby develops, as he begins to "walk", smile. It's nice to hear children's babble, to see the first attempts to know the world around us. This attention of parents to the development of their child is an indispensable condition for the full formation and development of the baby. But there are children who do not tolerate attention from others and do not show special interest in the outside world. These babies are comfortable alone, they negatively regard all manifestations of attention to their activities, reject the desire of relatives to intervene in their lives. Such children live in their own world and very reluctantly leave it to communicate with the existing external, understandable for us, but not at all attractive to them. Children with signs of autism do not seek to know, they do not want to share emotions. They always have problems in socialization and adaptation, there is no interest in the events taking place around them. If the child has the above listed symptoms, then - autism, its signs are called "on the face." This deviation in development has several names - Rett or Asperger syndrome.

How does autism occur?

Autism and signs of this syndrome are manifested to10-12 months. Then they are fixed and go into chronic form by three years. Not indifferent parents notice a deviation in development almost immediately. If the child refuses tactile contacts, if there is no speech in two years, if the baby prefers loneliness, if there is no nonverbal communication, the child does not look into the eyes of both the mother and others, gestures are nervous, inexpressive, unusual, sometimes too harsh reactions to external stimuli, for example, the baby frowns and closes his ears with the sounds of music or voice, then autism, the signs of this syndrome are obvious. It should be noted that the signs of autism in adults are similar.

The syndrome of autism can be both in a mild form,and in pronounced. Sometimes symptoms similar to signs of autism can manifest themselves at school age. But this is more the reaction of the child's body to changing the regime, changing its environment and excessive school loads.

Unfortunately, autism in acute form leads to a serious delay in the development of the child. And as a consequence of this process - a deep mental retardation, which can not be corrected.