Autism and social problem

People who suffer from AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER[ASD] may contribute to trouble with day-to-day living – from brushing to bathing, from wearing a tie to tie up shoelaces, taking the bus to cooperate in studies. It’s a social dysfunction disorder. 

 Adaptive skills or daily skills of ASD patients worse than their [IQ] level .they may have higher IQ levels but not able to hold their jobs because of autistic behavior.

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER patient have social skill problem -Difficulty in social interaction or verbal communication, restricted and repetitive behavior, inability to read non-verbal communication clues

These are very difficult for ASD people to acquire the basic skills that normal people take for granted. For a normal person, it’s very easy but for autistic people, its way far hard to communicate with people. 

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER people's symptoms are inconsistent. They did not control their symptoms. Emotional symptoms for example stress, depression, anxiety, and sometimes suicide thought. Behavior symptoms example aggression and challenging behavior. In some cases, it found that AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER patients harm themselves also and making different repetitive sounds, not able to control their action.

Most of the ASD people want to interact with other people but they not able to communicate with others due to a lack of skillset, which leads them to feel depressed and sometimes lead to suicide where the some other ASD people they didn't like interact with people it makes them uncomfortable, want to live alone easily they get frustrated and become hyperactive and get aggressive.

For ASD people it’s difficult to understand other people unique thought and ideas which lead to other people --------- give no eye contact while during interaction which seems that lack of interest and avoiding people. It’s very difficult for them to do multitask – while talking doing different work such as doing a calculation, doing a desk job, it’s difficult for them to do.

Autism in women

 In the beginning, in 1994 Hans Asperger thought that no woman or girl affected by autism syndrome only affects the male. In 2009, a study by Brugha found that in an adult survey, 1.8percentage of men had ASD only 0.2 perc. Women were affected.

Most people thought that autism is a condition mostly affecting males with a male up to four times more likely than females to be diagnosed with autism or with Asperger syndrome. Symptoms of autism in women aren’t very different from those of men they are quite similar but girls and boys may deal with the symptoms of autism differently women more likely to hide or mask their symptoms.

Mostly they are undiagnosed or diagnose after a long age because of masking as they are the very good actor or they hide their symptoms very easily and behave normal, work harder to fit in the society. They easily understand ‘go through the motion ‘of how they expected to behave .autistic female used their word carefully, talk pre-sized and carefully. Often have fewer friends or isolated in this situation sometimes tends to stress and depression. Being autistic often bullied in school by the other students being slow, did not understand the clues, and sometimes called them by different names.

 Stereotypes about male and female behavior can lead some people to miss some symptoms. Many people think girls mostly shy and naturally quieter or more likely to play alone whereas boys are often more likely to receive attention. However, this lead to girls un-noticed as their behavior characteristic is seen less to be problematic to need investigating.

Some people thought being autistic means they did not achieve anything in their life and making fun of them but this proved wrong too many people one of the girls who prove this wrong is ALEXIS WINEMAN

ALEXIS s is an autism advocate who was named Miss Montana in 2012. She is the first woman with an autism spectrum disorder to participate in MISS AMERICA 2013 pageant and won the ‘AMERICA’S CHOICE’ AWARD.

When she was in middle school diagnosed with PDD-NOS [PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER –NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED]. From an early age, she always felt different. As she got older, at the age of 11 she was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.

According to Alexis’s mother, Kim Butterworth, she starts noticing the difference between Alexis and her twin sister Amanda, when both girls were just kids. While from early age Amanda was talkative and active. Alexis did not walk when she was two and she starts talking at the age of three.

Alexis admitted that she was often bullied and teased by other children during her elementary school year. Her classmates called her mentally retarded and told her she was worthless. Fortunately, her family always very supportive and a source of her strength.

According to Alexis’s mom, she also had a speech impediment. She couldn’t pronounce the letter L or TH and trouble with S, A, R. This speech impediment make her more socially isolated and reduce her confidence.

But after time passes Alexis learns to become comfortable socially. She started taking part in school social activities, doing extracurricular activities, and also made some good friends.

After finishing high school with good grades she looked toward college and asked her mom about scholarship opportunities and her mom mentioned the miss Montana pageant and this the turning point in her life. It’s hard for her to participate but she tried and decided to make her about awareness and acceptance of ASD and came up with the title ‘NORMAL IS JUST A DRYER SETTING: LIVING WITH AUTISM.

In 2013 she participated in Miss America title although she did not win the title, she is top 15 contestants and also born America’s Choice Award.

ALEXIS’S SAYS: I WANT PEOPLE TO ACCEPT OTHERS WHO ARE DIFFERENT RATHER THAN MAKING THEM OUTCASTS

ASD is nothing to be ashamed of but is something to get treated with and move forward into building a successful life.