Autismo

Autism
Dharma Velasco y Samantha Rivas

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* Introduction…………………………………………………………………...3
* Daily Life……………………………………………………………………..6
* Social Life…………………………………………………………………….7
* General Behavior……………………………………………………………..8
* Difficulties……………………………………………………………………11
IV. Intellectuality………………………………………………………………….14

Autism is a chroniccondition in which it affects the brain formation. It is a complex disorder. They say that Asperger’s Syndrome (autism) affects 3 to 4 times more to boys than girls. It all starts when parents notice problems in verbal and nonverbal communication, antisocial interactions and pretend play. The autistic mind is out of this world.

No one knows the root cause of autism, although professionals andparents of autistic children are set on a few theories. Some believe that autism is cause by over-vaccination. Others claim it to be over-exposure to mercury and other toxic chemicals. Others blame genetics.

People with autism may be very sensitive in all 5 senses: sight, hear, touch, smell and taste. They are in their own little world thinking what they want to think. Everyday they arebeing said morons, weird, dumb, idiots, ect. That's when they get scared and start having problems socializing with people. Some autistic people can get to be genius because they visualize what it is spoken and look for the logic of it.

As well, they recognize and observe everything. You think that autism is a person that drools, that does not know how to talk, that starts making faces andsaying things out loud? No, they are people which a much farther IQ than a normal person and have graduated from college. People with this kind of syndrome can be more intelligent than us. Autistic humans can be very
different from normal ones.

Think about their parents, when they have to take care of them. Taking care of a Asperger child is not an easy job. Parents have to be patientand strong, such having this kind of child is hard. They go through a lot of frustration, but autism provides parents an understanding of what is really going on in their minds. Understanding differences in the autistic brain may also provide hints for better communication.

Autistic people think logically and predictably, but differently. They deal with facts, not concepts. This kind ofsyndrome affects the brain and makes it larger. Autistic brain is larger than the normal average one which is caused by the underdevelopment of the cerebellum, the acute over-growth of the brain and its amygdala. Another meaning of autism is the disorder of the cortex.

"Gray Matter" or cortex plays a role in the brain in: memory, attention, awareness, thought, language and consciousness. Theautistic brain develops too quickly at the wrong time between the ages of 3 months and 3 years, creating havoc. It too is said that testosterone may be linked to autism. A researcher in Times magazine describes autism as a condition of the "extreme male brain." He says that fetuses exposed in the womb to high levels of testosterone are more likely than others to develop autistic traits as children.Fetal testosterone not only masculine the body; it masculine the brain. Those who had been exposed to higher testosterone levels in the womb - measured via amniocentesis during pregnancy - have a greater chance of displaying autism-associated traits such as poor social skills, imagination and empathy and high aptitude in certain memory-retention exercises. Amniocentesis is the extraction ofamino acid fluid with a needle of the fetus.

The IQ of an autistic human is way beyond a normal one, but this makes them have an emotional sense of a 7 year-old. The upwards of autistic children is their stellar ability to use their visual parts of the right side of the brain to compensate for problems with language processing. The cerebellum of the brain is in charge of the attention and...