I recently got a medical date and explained that I have autism. This affects the way I communicate and understand information and sometimes it is explained as rude. The person was annoying and answered, “Well, everyone has autism.” Then tell something that sometimes faces difficulty, especially when he does not sleep enough.
This was not the first time that I heard this sentence, and I doubt that it was the latter. This happens frequently – not only in medical offices, but also in social situations, social networks and many other contexts. And not just me. Space connected They are full of adults with autism and parents of children with autism to express frustration with this expression.
Where is the idea that the features with autism are simply international human behaviors, just more exaggerated in people with autism?
To answer this, it is necessary to understand what autism is. Autism is a nervous difference for life. Or whether autism is born, or not. It is not something that develops over time.
Historically, autism was Diagnosis has been diagnosed in many groups of peopleAlthough it affects lower white children. But this does not mean that others are less likely to autism.
This is due to the fact that diagnostic practices and clinical assumptions are based on a very limited idea of how “autism”. This opinion fails to realize that many people with autism – especially girls and women – do so Hide (Or camouflage) of your autism. This means that they suppress their natural behavior to avoid a negative reaction to those around them. Fortunately, recognizing this camouflage grows, even slowly.
Challenges
The challenges faced by a person with autism, and the suffering they may feel, result in their interaction with others or the environment, due to their nervous differences.
Autism affects the way we test the world, how we communicate, and how to treat sensory information. Communication can be difficult for us, especially in environments where social expectations are not clearly determined.
We can also face difficulties in certain types of light, sounds or textures. These experiments may vary according to what we had to confront throughout the day, our hormone levels, and thus the degree of excess pregnancy.
People with autism often find comfort in familiarity and routine, and they may feel tired of unexpected changes. To deal with it, many people with autism exercise Editor (Self -stimulation), which may include shaking the body, beating with your fingers or playing with an object. These repeated movements help us to calm or regulate a sensory excess pregnancy.
When I teach autism, I sometimes ask students to think about how they interact with discomfort or sensory interruptions. Usually a long list comes: for example, it is upset with street work, which is bothering her rough or tense clothes with changing home. All this is human features. But they do not mean whether autism.
Life is often stressful, so the levels of cortisol rises. This does not mean that he has autism. This only means that your nervous system works as it should. Likewise, noting high noise or feeling anxious about changes is completely normal. But this does not mean that your mind works in the same way as a person with autism.
There are clear differences between people with autism and non-autism-only in the types of challenges they face, but in the frequency and intensity of these challenges. The investigation shows that people with autism have much higher rates of sensory sensitivity, communication differences, repeated behaviors and social difficulties without monotheism. For most people with autism, these characteristics are not transverse, they are fixed in daily life.
If you think this applies to you, you may have autism. Although it is estimated that about 3 % of the population has autism, only about 1 % of adults are diagnosed.
Therefore, when someone says, “Everyone has a little autism”, it tends to a legend that exhausts these differences. A spectrum that is transmitted from “non -monotheism” is suggested to “severe autism”, as it suits everyone somewhere in this line.
This interpretation is understandable, because there is no biological test of autism that gives a clear answer to “yes” or “no”. Instead, questionnaires are often used to assess the possibility of a person with autism. But one cannot be a “little” autism.
The term “autism spectrum disorder” was used for the first time in 1994 in diagnostic evidence, to unify people with autism and Asperger syndrome – a controversial name linked to Nazi collective genocide.
Many autistic researchers argue that people with autism should not be divided into different groups, as support needs may vary from day to day. Others criticize the term “autism spectrum” for his deception. It is often badly interpreted as a linear scale. In fact, autism is multi -dimensional. Various people have different groups of strength, needs and experiences. Two persons with autism may have few common denominators beyond the diagnosis.
The legend “We all all have autism” can be active. It is often used to reduce the value of the challenges we face or say that people with autism do not really need support. It also contributes to the culture in which autism becomes a joke. Non -automatic people do something like parking always in the same place and they say that they are “slightly autism”.
For decades, people with autism had no room to share their experiences. The stories that you tell about us, especially in MediumOften it was created by non -air persons and were full of stereotypes. This started to change, but these old ideas still exist.
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Therefore, the next time a person with autism tells you to face difficulties, does not respond compared to your discomfort. First he tries to show sympathy: “I’m sorry” or “this looks really difficult.” And if you can, ask if anything you can do to help. Even small gestures can make a big difference in a person’s comfort and well -being.
Because no, not everyone is a “autism disease”. And to say that this does not help us – it makes it difficult to see, hear and support it.
Aimee Grant is a teacherPublic Health Researcher and Career Development in Wilcum Trustuniversity Swansei
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