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Gail Lynn
Autism is known as a disorder of the neural development of a person, which is routinely defined by both impeded communication and social interaction. It is also characterized by behavior that is both repetitive as well as restrictive. All of these signs of autism can be observed in people when they are still very young, usually before the age of 3. This disorder has a reputation for impacting how the brain processes information through changing how both nerve cells as well as their synapses associate and get organized. Because of the aforementioned problems that stem from autism, it is a disorder that clearly creates a lot of lifestyle dilemmas for the person who has to endure this disorder. For one, the social development of a person is highly impacted by autism in a negative way. People with autism have to endure social impediments and so frequently fail to have the normal social intuitions about all the other people they come across. This lack of proper social development is apparent already from early childhood onwards. For example, it starts with autism-experiencing infants already showing less attention to stimulus in their environment, reacting less often to their own name than their peers and smiling less frequently than their normal peers, too. As adults, people with autism will have to deal more frequently with more intense loneliness than their peers who do not have autism. It comes as no surprise, then, that people with autism will also have a lifestyle where they will have fewer friendships than their non-autistic peers, primarily since it is challenging for them to make and keep friends. For these people, it is the quality of their friendships and not the number of their friends that establishes the extent of their loneliness. Friendships that are functional, like ones that result in invites to parties, might have an even more profound effect on their lifestyle. Communication is another aspect of lifestyle that is harshly hampered by autism. In fact, up to 50 percent of all autism experiencers actually come short of developing satisfactory natural speech to satisfy their everyday communication requirements! Just imagine how awfully and how brutally this will affect such a person's lifestyle. Interestingly, though, persons who speak with autism experiencers initially assume that said autistic folks can understand more than they really can. The repetitive behavior that is seen in those who have autism also negatively impacts their lifestyle. For instance, repetitive behavior can include things such as self-injury (repeated head banging or picking at skin), ritualistic behavior that involves doing the same thing each day and compulsive behavior that involves a rigid adherence to rules. Clearly, people with autism display a lot of behavioral patterns that normal people would derogate as "weird." As such, this leads to autistic people having a lot more difficulty in dealing with people and being social. As a result, the impact of autism on the lifestyle of an autistic person is very negative and forces her to deal with a lot of challenges.
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