When a child seems to be less concerned about the feelings of other people, do not get cross with them. It might be that the child is autistic and you just don’t know it. Sometimes, the syndrome causes them to fail in any attempts or desires to comfort a person who is upset, or even show any kind of affection at all. You want to begin by getting the child to a pediatrician so that they can give you a diagnosis.
Children with autism have communication difficulties. Do not mistake this for the lack of intelligence on their part because as is often the case, the child could be endowed with extremely high IQ, but merely find it difficult to share it – or anything for that matter – with anyone else.
Watch a kid with autism sometimes quote back to you whole conversations or dialog from a movie. And then when you try to say something to them, all you get is zilch. It is pretty obvious that there is a mind in there somewhere, you just happen to be unable to reach it. Please do not be too hard on yourself; it does not imply that you are a bad parent, merely that your child needs your love then more than before.
Give him or her dinosaurs, or trains, or any number of characters from a cartoon, and you might as well have made the day for a child with autistic tendencies. Sure a lot of kids are already like this, and it by no means implies that they all suffer from autism. But the autistic child will much prefer to be alone and will not make friends with other kids. They exhibit poor social behavior, and often lack in communication abilities. Be advised, living with autism is no easy feat.
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