AUTISM
According to CDC, autistic people are a group of people with developmental disabilities characterised by impairments in social interaction and communication and by restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behaviour. The disease is found to be four times more prevalent in males than females.
Autism is one of the most ignored diseases. Instead of helping the patient to get cured he/she is treated as mentally retarded, which is again the most unfortunate blot on the 21st century society. These special people need love and care like every other being as they are equal in every respect
Few facts about autism :
- Lack of basic equipment and improper diagnosis of autism
- India is home to about 10 million people with autism
- First signs usually appear before a child is three years old
- Early detection of this incurable disease can help a child lead his full potential
- Drugs taken by the mother during pregnancy exposes the child to this disability
- These children usually face discrimination and disparity by school authorities and even students
- Teachers are not confident enough of teaching them
- These children need trained therapists and educators
- There have been stray cases of private airlines offloading passengers with autism
- People suffering from autism may be slow learners but as Albert Einstein has proven, they do have brilliant minds
- Diagnosis gets delayed as doctors treat it as mental retardation or schizophrenia or blame bad parenting
- Therapy can open new neural pathways of learning
- Has been reversed on animals in labs
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