Most people are still wrong in defining autism. What they think about autism is that this is a kind of disease and has no differences with down syndrome or ADHD. In fact, it's not a disease and it's not even similar with down syndrome and ADHD. The saddest thing is, some people often like to make fun of it. They make the word "autism" as a humiliation.
The real fact about autism is that it is a complex developmental disorder which the symptoms have already appeared from a child before age 3. It can also be regarded as a developmental disorder of the nervous system in a person who suffered from birth or when he/she was a toddler.
They are not different with us (who we think are the normal ones). They just have different kind of emotions, but they can think normally just like common people. Stop making fun of autism. If you've never done it, never try to start. Even once.
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