Autism Culture Research Paper

Autism Culture Overview Autism spectrum culture is a new culture that has evolved in the past decades all across the continents, yet many are not aware of its behaviors, values, or beliefs. Autism as other culture does not manifest the same way in every individual but it has its own way of development within the same culture. Autism spectrum first case in the United States was diagnose in the early 1940’s, but in other continents it was already been observed. Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger’s were the first who refer to children with emotional and social behavior autistics and Asperger’s. It was yet not defined what it was or why children were being born or were developing a rare cognitive, physical, emotional and social development. Autism

The ASF also states that autism is a “developmental disabilities that cause substantial impairments in social interaction and communication and the presence of unusual behaviors and interests. Many people with ASDs also have unusual ways of learning, paying attention, and reacting to different sensations(2016, para. 1). UC San Diego Autism Center shares that“the onset of autism is prior to age 3 years. When autism was first characterized by Leo Kanner in 1943, the prevalence was estimated at 1 in every 2,000 children. Today, one out of every 68 children is affected with autism or related disorder” (2016, para. 2). As observed in the research within 7 decades’ autism has quickly emerge into society. Signs that parents need to look out in their infants for autism are “lack or delay of language, reparative language or motor mannerism, little or no eye contact, lack of peer in peer relationships, lack of spontaneous or make believe play, and persistentfixation on parts of objects”; as suggested by Autism Society (2016, para. 4). In the following interviews done by the author of this paper there are observations an example on how autism culture has affect many

Before encountering with this new disorder she had big hopes for both of her son’s everything seems to just fall into place perfectly. Then when her youngest boy turned 2, she and family member notice little Adrian was different from other toddlers. He demonstrates emotional, and social behavior issues differently than his older brother. That’s when Gladys was concerned and ask the child pediatrician if his behavior was normal. Doctor suggested to have him evaluate for autism spectrum, that Adrian had signs of having the disorder. As the doctor has suggested Adrian had the autism spectrum. Now what? The first year Gladys declared that it was difficult. Adrian cried for everything, he had no language. He would not tolerate any loud sounds and he was just too attached to her. She could not go out of his sight he would get frustrated and throw himself and cried loud. What made it worst she had no support from Adrian’s father. Now she had to find a way to help her son achieve all his development growth goals. She was being refer to specialists which will work with Adrian. Gladys felt that now everything needed to revolved around Adrian’s condition and she felt guilty because she was not attending her older son (only a year older than Adrian) as she should; she was neglecting him because she was to focus on meeting Adrian’s