Autistic Children Outcasts

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Kids with autism are often at times considered to be "outcasts" or to have no emotion or empathy to other people. But children that have autism could just be doing what they think is right for the situation that is at hand. People all across the world think that autistic kids can't do things just because they have autism. Many think that since a child with autism can't talk that they are not happy or don't like to be around people. But many times the child in this situation is just being misunderstood.
Children with autism usually ask for things differently them we might of. If a child with autism is sick instead of telling us his or her stomach hurts, they might just not eat for a few days or they might just scream out in pain. If people around …show more content…

There is a kid that has autism that is in my grade. So when we were in second and third grade he sometimes was not in class with us because he was with the special education teacher. Many of us thought of him as an outcast because he was weird or different. Since we never really saw him we just kind of left him out in things like group projects or hanging out at recces. Most of us kind of excluded him from our normal lives at school. But really he just learned at a different speed and in different ways than we do. But if you really looked into it he was smart, he could figure out problems that we would really have to think about and he just knew them like it was the easiest thing in the world. "Those with ASD, like my son, are highly intelligent but learn differently" Natasha told Upworthy. They can do all the things that normal people can do it just takes them longer to learn it or they learn it in a completely different way that works for them. Most parents that have a child with autism really just want for the people around them to think of their kid as a normal kid. Not one that is weird or has something wrong with them, just a normal

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