Posted:
14 years ago
I am glad you guys brought this topic up, I'm very passionet about spreading awareness for this disorder, if anyone has questions let me know, because I have studied this disorder so much because it is a very big part of my life. I would like to add that you should never isolate a child because he/she has autism. I have two little cousins who are Autisitic. Both of them are the youngest in their family and are the same age. One of them is given special treatment by his parents because of it, he gets whatever he wants and his parents force the other kids to do what ever he wants. This is not helpful because this boy has learned from his parents to use his autism to manipulate, I love him to bits, but he is a very selfish, spoilt, and pessimestic child, as well as he has developed a very strained relationship with his two other siblings. Basically his older broher and sister dislike him, and see him as nothing more then a pest. While on the other hand my other cousin is treated just like if he was a normal kid, meaning he gets punishments when he does something wrong and treats only if he earns them, the only special treatment he gets is with his dietary food because we have to be careful what he eats. But other then that he acts just like a normal kid, yes he does have certain unique tendeinces, like focusing on a single topic or object and repeating it over and over aging, and that he is unable to express his anger constructively and it comes out as a temper tantrum, but other then those rare occasions, he is absolutley normal, has normal speech, and is a real social butterfly, he goes up to complete strangers and says congratulations.