Autism doesn’t come with a manual. This comes with parents who don’t visit, who take their children to therapy while other parents take their parents to football or ballet. They are mothers who spend hours researching what their children need, families who fight every day against the invisibility and happiness of those. they love more.
No child with autism is the same as another. However, society calls them confusing terms, using stereotypes without understanding that behind each diagnosis lies a unique and exceptional person, someone with special needs and a family behind him who fights every day, not only for their integration, but for their inclusion.
- One thing to keep in mind is that autism cases have been on the rise in recent years.
- According to several studies by the American Autism Society.
- 1 in 150 newborns will be diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder).
The reason for this reality is not entirely clear, on the one hand the effectiveness in diagnosis itself and early detection, but on the other the great conundrum of genetics and this biological disorder whose cause is not yet known precisely.
However, in all cases, we are faced with a relevant fact: autism is becoming more common and there are more families who need our recognition and support.
Autism is a great unknown to most of the population, many associate it with people with extraordinary skills, mathematical geniuses or very good visual memory, but with shy, rigid and stereotypical behaviors.
The autistic child is also not easily recognized by his parents, if the baby does not look at you at 6 months does not matter, he will do so at 8 or 10 months, if he does not show things together, does not interact and is shy, no matter what, because in the end he is quite restless. If our four-year-old doesn’t speak, it may be because he has a hearing problem.
How can we imagine that all these behaviors actually describe a child with ASD?It’s not an easy thing to assume. Especially since parents have very different expectations about their children’s development, dealing with the difficulties, anxiety and stress associated with the idea of what their lives will be like from this day on is terribly delicate.
However, that is when the most difficult, selfless and beautiful battle for her children begins.
It’s quite possible that you already know the case of Iris Grace. This British girl was diagnosed with severe autism when she was just over 4 years old. Doctors told her parents that the girl would probably never speak or show any connection to her surroundings.
They made a mistake. The diagnosis was correct, but the prognosis was not, because her mother, Arabella, has since fought for her daughter to connect with the world in one way or another, something she achieved in two very specific ways: painting and, in particular , thanks to his cat Thula, an animal with a natural and prodigious instinct to take care of children like Iris.
From the day Thula entered the girl’s life, Iris began to practice something her parents hadn’t seen in her yet: smiles.
There will be complicated days, so dark and bitter that it will seem that the child does not progress, but that he is completely reversed, but, as difficult as it may seem, the shadow of surrender never appears in the mother’s mind. or father of an autistic child.
The support of good professionals and associations are essential pillars in the day to day, but in addition, we cannot forget these simple and magical keys at the same time.
Try to make every moment with your autistic child of quality, relaxed and with appropriate and attractive stimuli for him, because believe it or not, if you arrive tired or with tension, the child will feel stress or anxiety in you and this will be reflected in his behavior.
In conclusion, it is important to understand that autism is not a lack of communication or feelings, children with autism feel, think, struggle and communicate daily, only know how to understand them, why does who pulls the rope?This autistic child discovers an authentic, original, tenacious and wonderful person.
Like his own parents.