Autism is caused due to neurological disorders and can affect language and social development in a person. The severity and the symptoms of autism vary widely and hence it is considered as a broad-spectrum disorder.
A person affected with a low degree autism can never live his/her life in full and independently and where as the high degree autism affected person is at the other end of spectrum meaning that the person will be normal and some times superior also. One example for the high spectrum autism is the classic aspergers autism.
What you mean by Aspergers autism
Many researchers opine that aspergers autism is different form the regular autism disorder, but few people argue that it is the same autism occurring in higher degree or a high functioning one. One can have a clear idea about the aspergers autism from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders where it has been clearly spelled out as follows:
1. Absence of qualitative interaction in any social environment.
2. Occurrence of stereotype, repetitive and restricted behaviours and interests.
3. Conspicuous and noticeable defects in major areas of day-to-day functioning.
4. There will not be any noticeable delay in language development.
5. Other than the social interaction area, there will not be any noticeable delay in psychological development, adaptive skills or behaviour and self-help skills.
6. The symptoms resemble very much to the cases of schizophrenia or pervasive developmental disorder.
In autism, though the psychological development, self-help skills and adaptive behaviour seems to be normal the other behaviours such as social development or adaptability, language skills and creative skills take a beating and are very conspicuously absent or different from other normal individuals.
Academic Speech
The majority of the speech by people suffering from Aspergers autism will always centre on various intellect aspects and can never be about the people or surroundings. Persons affected by aspergers autism communicate for the main purpose of sharing the knowledge and they always tend to sound that of a teaching professor and the merit of identifying this particular behaviour in 1944 should go to Dr. Hans Asperger.
Many of the Dr. Hans Asperger’s findings and studies were not made public due the reason of World War II going over at that time. His widely researched studies were also not translated and made public in the last 50 years. He was the first person to tell the world that many adults with Aspergers autism were never diagnosed when they were children.
Medical Condition – both Physical and Psychological
There is no record to prove that Aspergers autism can reduce the patient’s life but the autism can set in psychological conditions such depression, mood disorders, and the popular OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).
Persons afflicted by autism will display impairment in socialising and this can cause an anxious and debilitating situations that are very difficult to manage and tolerate.
However, the eagerness to learn any new things and intense concentration power displayed by autism affected persons were found to be very useful in persons who have a high IQ level. Persons with Aspergers autism can excel in all fields such as science, music and mathematics barring only a situation where social interaction is involved. Persons affected by Aspergers autism are absent minded and never like socialising.
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