Thread:The Other Toy Freddy/@comment-25947914-20150724095305/@comment-68.57.233.20-20150804101945

Autistic people can be, and almost always are, very smart. I was one of two people to attend triple advanced almost everything last year. You know who the other student was?

That's right. An autistic person.

And about the class trip, they're probably just used to that schedule at their houses. Autistic people are not boring, the ones you knew were probably just social anxious.

Jay has done bad things recently.


 * cough*

From Wikipedia:

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior. Parents usually notice signs in the first two years of their child's life. These signs often develop gradually, though some children with autism reach their developmental milestones at a normal pace and then regress. The diagnostic criteria require that symptoms become apparent in early childhood, typically before age three.

While autism is highly heritable, researchers suspect both environmental and genetic factors as causes. In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects.Controversies surround other proposed environmental causes; for example, the vaccine hypotheses have been disproven. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood. It is one of three recognized disorders in the autism spectrum (ASDs), the other two being Asperger syndrome, which lacks delays in cognitive development and language, and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified(commonly abbreviated as PDD-NOS), which is diagnosed when the full set of criteria for autism or Asperger syndrome are not met. Early speech or behavioral interventions can help children with autism gain self-care, social, and communication skills. There is no known cure. Not many children with autism live independently after reaching adulthood, though some become successful.

An autistic culture has developed, with some individuals seeking a cure and others believe autism should be accepted as a difference and not treated as a disorder.