AUTISM AWARENESS AT ESCG

Autism - 

“A neurodevelopmental condition of variable severity with lifelong effects that can be recognized from early childhood, chiefly characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behaviour”  

What you have just read. That is the dictionary definition of autism.  

“Autistic people may act in a different way to other people” As quoted by the NHS. 

But autism is a spectrum. No two autistic people are the same.  

Autistic people may: 

• find it hard to communicate and interact with other people 

• find it hard to understand how other people think or feel 

• find things like bright lights or loud noises overwhelming, stressful or uncomfortable 

• get anxious or upset about unfamiliar situations and social events 

• take longer to understand information 

• do or think the same things over and over 

But not every autistic person will display the same symptoms. More than 1 in 100 people are autistic. That’s 1 out of 100 people trying to fit in with a neurotypical world and society by being forced into situations that make an autistic person uncomfortable, which allows these individuals to display the symptoms of the condition.  

 Autism shouldn’t be something to be frowned upon, in my opinion it is what makes us unique, as no two autistic people are the same.