
Some look at autism as a kidnapping. The Child that came home from the hospital isn’t the child you have once autism takes effect. 1 in 150 births or 1 to 1.5 million Americans is diagnosed, but how many go undiagnosed. Why are boy four times more likely to develop this disease than girls. Is there a reason? Is this a phantom disease? I don’t know studies can be manipulated to reveal what ever you want. X-Chromosome, Mercury, child hood vaccines mothers blaming themselves, and wondering what they could have done to inflict their child.
There were several points in the movie “Autism the Musical” that raised questions or reason for thought for me. The father who was in a Rock Band saying he understood the children. How he used his guitar as a way to separate himself from the rest of the world, why because the world didn’t understand him. The Acting Coaches’ Son saying I want you to listen. Tells me no matter what you do to communicate with the child that is autistic if you don’t speak the language you can’t be understood.
Autistic children are described as Uncharacteristic, not conforming to the usual type or expected pattern. Atypical patterns of interest or behavior.
We do everything we can to make the autistic child fit in to our world. What do we do to fit into their world?
Autism is a handicap that isn’t localized to the individual but to the family and community.
The family has to find a way to communicate and live with the child that is autistic. The community has to find a way to embrace the autistic child. Find a way to integrate the child into the community. But what happens, we try to make the child communicate and live in the way that is already established and acceptable by society. We believe that is the only way they will be able to exist in society as we interpret.
It reminds me of being forced to speak the German language and Learn the German Culture then replacing it with your American Culture or language. To the autistic Child everything makes sense, until asked to explain it in a language that can be understood. Does the child understand life as we see it, but just isn’t able to communicate that understanding. Their super sensitively to sounds, color or smells, their need for controlled order, from the outside looking in this doesn’t make sense. But from the inside looking out this is the way things are suppose to exist. Instead of a square peg fitting into a round hole it is a round peg fitting into a square hole there are gaps.
http://autism.healingthresholds.com/glossary#term105)
http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly (the national autistic society)
http://www.autism-society.org



