Truths About Autism
As parents, either a father or mother, there is need to check adequately, from infancy your wards to know if they are autistic. Raising children who are autistic is not an easy task. Most times, the financial implication involved could be very huge.
However, in this post, I would like to consider factors that may cause autism in children.
This amount from my recent contact in a church service with an aisric female child. She was restless throughout the programme and her parents could not concentrate.
There is a level of control, medically that parents can apply when autism is detected in a child at an early stage.
Delay in movement: At infancy, the child should have had strong bones, enough to make him or her stand on two legs, or even try walking. This movement attempt usually begins twelve (12) months after birth. Most times, parents erroneously attribute delayed movement in a child to hereditary or malnutrition. Though, these could be factors to be considered too, one should not shy away from medical observation to be on the safer side.
High Level of Fear: A child who is most likely to have autism would be afraid of the most meagre objects. The fear factor is always reflective in an aquatic child.
Constant Constipation or Diarrhea:The inability to excrete after a period of ingestion or constant and irregular excretion is one thing to watch out for.
Autism Spectrum Development is a neuro condition of impairment on an individual that leaves them almost helpless due to the malfunctioning of the nerves. ASD patients often exhibit restlessness in the bid to behave in a particular way.
Eye Contact: Inability to control the eye to look in a particular direction is one of the notable symptoms of autism in children. Every individual should have nerves strong enough to tell the eyes to look in one particular direction or the other and control the stimulus. Hence, parents or guardians should quickly notice this by observing the infant from birth to learn if the eye control is coordinated or otherwise.
Emotional or Facial Expression: A child who is autos could be traced through emotions. The inability for the child to respond to laughter, smile or cry but shouting at odd times is a traceable symptom to autism in most cases.
Children with autism may have very high intelligence, reading quite difficult words that could be beyond their age. The more reason why parents who have them should not neglect their educational needs. This has been found through research and thus parents have been advised to keep them by seeking help to enrol them in school where special needs are attended to.
The process is called hyperlexia. An autistic child with a high level of brilliance.
There is a lot of research as to the causes of autism. These causes vary from time to time but are generally acceptable in medical and psychological terms to be true.
Born By Older Parents
I have personally disagreed with this though but when born by old parents, the child has a tendency to suffer from autism. This is because the cells from the parents seem weak to carry out some of the specific functions like that of movement of legs, control of the nerves and so on.
Therefore, parents or intending parents are advised to begin childbearing early in life.
Hereditary: Autism could be passed on to a child from the family history if any. A family or someone with close blood ties with you could cause autism in children. You know what they say:
Blood is thicker than water
The X and Y theory. You remember it. From time immemorial, when you have not been born, medical occurrences of your relatives could repeat in another generation. But sometimes, if discovered early, it could be corrected.
Proper medical check should come up from time to time to discover some of these health challenges.
Low Weight At Birth: If a new born child does not have enough weight at birth, that is, the child is too little for birth, amounting from poor maturation or degradation, there is a tendency that he/she could turn autistic.
Opened To High Metallic Toxins: Some years ago and recently during the lockdown, people had agitated against the installation of 5g network facilities in their locality, trying it to one of the main causes of abnormal health challenges like autism, polio and many more.
Chemical waste from industries into the atmosphere could result in a deformation of a fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman.
Generally speaking, the causes of autism could be tied to both environmental and genetic factors.
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Brilliant article there, speaking about older parents, it mostly has to do with the female.. It is medically advised to discontinue or complete child birth before 32 years, as from that age afterwards they are chances of genetic mutation, which could result in children with birth defect.
Talking of intelligence I must say, its true, I just remember this movie called the good doctor, where the resident surgeon was an autistic patient, he was so brilliant and almost had all answers at his finger tips...