Starting from today, Yang Qingyu will bring you a whole series of articles on autism (also known as autism, the same below) early childhood signal series, through these manifestations and characteristics that occur in autistic children, help parents find out the possible autistic children in the family in time, prevent possible autism risks and so on.
And before I start today's article, I would like to ask you, what do you think of autism?
In fact, before doing this series, our institution has already done the corresponding questionnaire. The final result is almost the same as mainstream public opinion, more than half of the parents believe that autism is a problem that affects their children's lives.
However, there are also parents who believe that autism has the possibility of being cured.
Some parents feel that there is no complete research system for autism at present, so they will tend to wait and see, rather than rushing to choose autism rehabilitation institutions and so on.
Similar ideas reflect the views of different groups on the issue of autism. Today, Yang Qingyu also hopes that everyone can say their own ideas, hope to get more different answers, and provide help for more autistic children and families.
Well, without further ado, let's get to the point of today – the early signs of autism (I).
In the early development of autistic children, there will be many "early warning" signals, such as narrow interests, stereotyped behavior, language barriers, etc., but the most easily found is another very important feature - children do not know how to socialize.
Social disturbances are an early sign of the emergence of autism
Netizen Deccc41e8 shared such a story: "My husband's brother's daughter, three years old, will now call mom and dad, play by themselves, do not like to play with my two children, grumpy, if you do not follow her wishes, you will cry, or bite people, take things to smash people." 」 ”
Seeing this, it is estimated that many experienced parents have judged whether the child is an autistic child. However, netizen Deccc41e8 still has some doubts about this, because children with intellectual disabilities may also have similar characteristics, which does not necessarily mean that the child is autistic, right?
In fact, the key is the social barrier.
Why do you say that the social impairment of children with autism is different from the social impairment caused by language development delay and intellectual disability?
There are two reasons for this:
First, children with autism do not have a clear relationship of intimacy
Children with language delays and intellectual disabilities will show a kind of dependence and closeness to their parents and family members, because they know that they are intimate people. But autistic children are different, they rarely take the initiative to approach their parents, and many times they will behave very indifferently.
Second, children with autism themselves are reluctant to come into contact with others
In infancy, autistic children will subconsciously avoid eye contact, lack interest and response to human voices, do not expect to be picked up, or be stiff and unwilling to be close to people when picked up.
In early childhood, children with autism will still avoid eye contact, rarely respond to calls to them, lack of interest in interacting or playing with children of the same age, will not interact with children of the same age in an appropriate way, cannot establish partnerships with children of the same age, will not share happiness with others, will not seek comfort from others when they encounter unpleasantness or harm, and so on.
The future impact of social impairment on children with autism
If the impact of social disorders on children with language delay may be the impact of dating, it means a persistent lack of language skills and the extremeization of children's personality development.
As a result, they will not perceive changes in other people's emotions, nor will they regulate their emotions according to social situations, and more importantly, they may not be able to adapt to society, work normally and fall in love.
If the child is like this for a long time, perhaps the future can only rely on the help of parents to live a normal life. But when the parents are old, what should these children do?
Next issue tip: The first article is about the "social disorder" of autistic children, and in the next issue, we will bring you "language disorder", the second biggest signal of autism.