Skin-biting, head-banging; classic symptoms of a child suffering from autism. Rather than fight with you, they fight themselves. The best you can do is not to break their regular routines, or else you might not be able to placate the child. Instead, learn all you can about how to handle kids with autism. There are lots of ways that you can learn about that will help you.
Although I am yet to see an autistic patient actually pick up their fists and fight with someone, I am aware that they could instead show a lot of aggression toward other people or even to inanimate objects. I?m no expert, and I?m sure they do have their moments, but I just haven’t seen it. What I have seen is more of them having episodes of extreme anger or serious frustration that no one, not even their parent can get them out of. And when it is over, they simply go back to being what they have been the whole time. Alone.
When you buy an autistic child some clothes, see to it that there are no distinctive smells or tags or labels attached to them. Most autistic kids cannot stand it. Also, if there was a sudden sound in their immediate vicinity, they could take very serious offense. Falling rain, a cricket sounding off in the distance; these things might affect them in various but unpleasant ways. So you will do well to have something handy that they might appreciate.
At one time, every kid that was diagnosed with autism was also believed to suffer from some form of mental retardation. That was prior to the wealth of information that now surfaced about the condition during the 90s. These days, now we know different. Autism does not imply mental illness, just a different kind of disorder. Mental illness we know how to cure, autism we have no idea how it comes about, let alone how to cure it.
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