Aspergers Autism The Mysteries Dispelled

Autism is a broad-spectrum neurological disease, which affects social development. Autism covers a range of responses and every sufferer has highly individual symptoms. Some sufferers are low functioning, and they will never have an expectation of anything approaching a normal independent life.

At the other end of the autistic scale there is a level of high functioning autism. Medical opinion is divided as to whether Aspergers autism is a level in the spectrum of autism, or whether it is separate. Whist it may be some time before the key to that is solved there are six criteria necessary for Aspergers autism to be diagnosed.

• There has to be impairment in the quality of social interaction.
• They display repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior and interests.
• They are unable to function in certain key areas.
• There is no marked delay in language
• Apart from their difficulties with social interaction they should not display difficulties in the areas of cognitive development.
• The symptoms should not be part of another mental disorder that is completely separate.

Aspergers autism is linked to autism in the sense that all the sufferers cannot relate to people; they display distinct social, and language difficulties, as well as a limit to the imagination. They display completely different characteristics in the sense that they are very bright.
Aspergers autism sufferers do not relate to people they relate to things and objects. Communication is not a means to express how they feel, as they often do not know how they feel. Typically they communicate to share information. It was the tendency to speak as though they were little fonts of knowledge that led Hans Asperger to isolate the syndrome. As a result of ignorance many adults were never diagnosed as having Aspergers autism

The condition is not life threatening, it is a syndrome not a disease. However there are other complications, depression, irrational obsessive and compulsive behavior and abrupt mood swings. Aspergers autism also causes anxiety the sufferers’ know that they have a degree of social impairment, they are aware that they are different and this leads to stress and the inability to cope.

A positive aspect of Aspergers autism is that they excel and over achieve in the areas of sciences where social interaction is irrelevant. They can utilize their thirst for knowledge and intense focused concentration to learn. The typical stereotype of a geek can be used to describe aspergers autism, in the logical fields of mathematics, science or music.

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