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
3 comments:
I liked that you started your post with a statistic showing the number of people affected. It is clear that you have thought a great deal about this topic. To appreciate the depth of your points and the interesting angles that you take, I read it a number of times. On my first read through, I hiccuped a few times on some of the grammar. I liked that you compared it to kidnapping. I liked your analogy of a round peg in a square hole. Often when we write we are just launching messages in bottles out to sea. We know the message we intended, but we never know what message someone will take from our bottle. Sometimes we wonder if anyone will even find one of our messages. Well today I picked up a bottle on the beach, and this is what I found inside . . . Autism is the theft of our children and it affects everyone. In a sense, what caused the autism of the children already born doesn't matter. At least not as much as how we as a community treat them. Society has many questions about autism, but these questions willn't be answered unless we attempt to adapt to their world. The world of autism is natural for autistic people becuase it is what they've known. It would be like bringing a german overnight and expecting him to conform to and explain in perfect english the nuances of american culture. We can no more force them to conform than we can forces two odd shapes together. . . . Anyway that was the way I read it. I know I'm not a perfect reciever/reader, but hopefully the message recieved by me and the message intended by you were pretty close to one another, and together our communications will progress. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and effort. I've enjoyed your post.
Great post; I didn't know boys were more prone than girls. Your comment "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." was very interesting. It brought about the harsh reality that because society doesn't understand, they try to make the special children adapt to our world. Hopefully with more studies, it will be easier to communicate with children with autism and make their world more enjoyable and not so misunderstood.
This was nicely put. Trying to understand an autism child fit into our world is vastly different for them.
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