Autism

Overview

Autism is a serious lifelong disabling condition. It affects a person’s communication and social skills. People affected are unable to comprehend and associate with things around them. Autism is incurable, but with right support it can prevent the agony of many families, and also improve the life of many suffering from it.

What is Autism?
Autism is a developmental disorder, which appears in the first 3 years of life. This hampers the normal development of brain, and results in abnormal social behavior.

Symptoms

Difficulty interacting Socially         
Difficulty in Verbal and Non verbal communications        
Oversensitive to sight, hearing, touch etc.        
Unusual distress         
Unusual attachments to certain objects         
Repeat certain movements        
Has short attention span        
Unusual focus on a single object

Causes

Genes        
Diet        
Mercury poisoning         
Vaccine sensitivity        
Advanced parental age at the time of conception        
Maternal illness during pregnancy       
Certain difficulties during birth