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I was wondering what are the symptoms and treatment options for Autism and Asperger's syndrome. Why are there so many more cases than there were 20 and 30 years ago?
There are more people in the world, communication is so much better so we hear more about autism, diagnosis is tons better, autism has become better defined. For any kind of autism, the social factor is huge; autistic kids are basically loners. They are also very smart, especially in a savant way. Otherwise, there is a huge range of characteristics. For that reason, there's no one treatment plan. Early intervention is the best plan.
Sounds a lot like one of my friends from school, he is very smart and hardworking and was always somewhat of a loner who didn't fit in with the "in crowd". He follows the same routine every day and always had unusual interests. He spends hours on the internet every day playing games. It's sad because he could be enjoying life so much more. I don't know if he has Asperger's or obsessive compulsive disorder or something else. He is nearly 36 and I hope he isn't too old for treatment. I wish I could help him.
Sounds a lot like one of my friends from school, he is very smart and hardworking and was always somewhat of a loner who didn't fit in with the "in crowd". He follows the same routine every day and always had unusual interests. He spends hours on the internet every day playing games. It's sad because he could be enjoying life so much more. I don't know if he has Asperger's or obsessive compulsive disorder or something else. He is nearly 36 and I hope he isn't too old for treatment. I wish I could help him.
My autistic son is 38 -- never too old for treatment.
Does he want help? Does anyone beside you see he has a problem? Google autism and asperger's for characteristics and treatment ideas.
Thanks for answering, I don't think he wants help and the only people who know are me and a few other school friends. I forgot to mention earlier, he has a pretty good job at a factory, but gambles away a lot of his earnings on video lottery terminals, I don't know if compulsive gambling is a sign of asperger's but it is troubling.
Thanks for answering, I don't think he wants help and the only people who know are me and a few other school friends. I forgot to mention earlier, he has a pretty good job at a factory, but gambles away a lot of his earnings on video lottery terminals, I don't know if compulsive gambling is a sign of asperger's but it is troubling.
You see him as not going anywhere with his life, like he's wasting his money and spinning his wheels. Does he have living parents?
Years ago my son didn't want to get a job because it would cut into his free time. The gambling could be an OCD thing or preoccupation with one thing to the exclusion of others, plus lack of common sense.
He doesn't have living parents or any relatives who talk to him. It's hard to tell if he has Asperger's, OCD or lack of common sense or all three. Him not wanting to change and not being able to help him is very frustrating for me and his other friends.
He doesn't have living parents or any relatives who talk to him. It's hard to tell if he has Asperger's, OCD or lack of common sense or all three. Him not wanting to change and not being able to help him is very frustrating for me and his other friends.
I know how hard it is (impossible!) to convince someone he needs help. If he continues to waste his money, could he end up homeless or hurting in some way? Maybe you could meet with a counselor who has a rep of working with OCD and even disabilities such as Asperger's to get some insight and ideas on what to say to him so he doesn't become his own worse enemy. If he trusts you, you might be halfway there. Of course, someone would have to continually check up on him to make sure he's doing well.
they say that one in one hundred and fifty kids now have autism to some degree.
I believe it is often the vaccines they are required to have. People say that can't be the cause because they were vaccinated BUT NOW kids are required to get three times more shots and as soon as they are born. There are exemption forms but very few people know about them.
I really believe it is the shots because why do they start them at a couple weeks to a couple months old. If they didn't require them until 2 yrs old you would have a little better idea of their personality development. This way you never know.
Also the autism support group in my area is headed by two women that have autistic kids and they said they hear it all the time as well as it happened with their kids. They said they all had a problem with the one shot in particular. Their babies developed a low grade fever within days of the shot and then they were never the same.
I really believe it is the shots because why do they start them at a couple weeks to a couple months old.
I totally disagree. I think our awareness of autism is huge, and with terrific communication. My husband is high-functioning autistic, but that word was never used back in the '40s and '50s when he was a kid. He now looks at the list of autism "symptoms" and says, "Yup, that's me." When I was in grade school about the same time, kids were labeled slow or even stupid or weird. Now kids like that are said to be autistic or dyslexic or have OCD. We've got our labels down pat; we are able to diagnose everything.
My "normal" son had a fever after his baby shots; my autistic son never did. Inoculations have nothing to do with autism. Autism covers a huge spectrum of behaviors, and, since we are so aware of autism now, it is easy to fit behaviors into the spectrum.
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