When it comes to the disorders of neurological category, then in this vast expanse of world there are only three category of people namely medical professionals, the afflicted and the relatives of the afflicted; all the rest of the people come under the ignorant category.
Most of the general public still remain ignorant and uninterested about this type of disease or condition related to behavioural impairment.
Due to the indifference implicitly shown by the general public towards the autism is assuming significant proportions and hence the condition of autism started receiving insignificant understanding.
The Bias and Autism Behavior
The main reason for general public to misunderstand autism behavior lies in their disbelief regarding the very existence of any such disease or condition. The prejudiced thought or belief make them to take the impairment as crazy and they fail or rather refuse to take into account the possibility of existence of such neurological disorder.
The popular belief or rather disbelief makes people to just brush off any symptoms of neurological disorders as “crazy behaviour” and even make them to suggest ways and means to mend the behaviour.
Most of the autism symptoms exhibited by children are in fact looked down as irresponsible acts of escapism and in misunderstanding the symptoms parents are in no way different from the general public.
In earlier days when people find behavioural changes or any malady in social interaction among their child, then they will be subjected to punishments such as locking them in cages or making them to stand in hot sun or cold rain. They believed that such punishments could correct the intentional and the forced behaviour problems of the child.
The situation even made the federal government to bring in a law to desist parents and general public from inciting such punishments on their wards or younger children. In those days the so-called therapy for autism behavior normally comprises of torture related treatments and methods for correcting the behavioural patterns.
Harmless Impairment
Most of the autism behaviors assume a social awkwardness form where as the true social awkwardness is the real absence or lack of a specific social skill. The key factor of an autism behavior is that it is looked at as a voluntary behaviour rather than an involuntary response. The actual autism behavior is in fact a mental condition and should never be treated as lack of social skills.
Knowing more about autism behavior and autism behavioural therapy are not easy and the issues are to be discussed in length to get a better understanding so as to know well the domain of the above-mentioned three groups.
[tags]Autism, Autism Behavior[/tags]