Autistic Characteristics Parents Should Look For In Children
October 24, 2008
I’m here to talk to you about the autistic characteristics that make up this disorder. When a person has these problems, they’re going to exhibit varying degrees of issues with their communication and relating skills. The reason it varies so much is that each person is unique and it appears like the disorder effects each person differently. Some will be blessed with amazing verbal skills, while others can’t even say a word. But when you get down to the basic characteristics of the whole thing, you do see a lot of similarities. Obviously the mild sufferers have an easier time working through it, but they do have to struggle to learn these things. I’m going to show you the autistic characteristics, so you can easily identify a person with autism.
The most common characteristic you’re going to see will be the ones that are about relating. In a typical conversation there is more than just communication. I know on the surface, it is just people talking and they’re communication information, but there is an aspect of relating that comes along with it. People aren’t robots that communicate, we are people that want to relate to one another. With autism, you will find that these people don’t know how to relate. They can speak perfectly, but they just won’t have that aspect of relating that comes with a conversation. You may view this a vibe or a feeling, but it’s just the inability to relate.
One of the biggest autistic characteristics is eye contact. Naturally people will gravitate to the eyes when we communicate. It is a big part of relating to another person. People that don’t make eye contact just can’t properly relate to others. An autistic person doesn’t have that natural function to look someone in the eyes. It’s just not there, so they won’t look and this will probably give a person a vibe and they just won’t relate. You’re probably thinking that this would be easy to fix; just tell them to make eye contact when they talk. It really isn’t that easy. You’ve probably talked to people that gave you that glaring stalker stare. This creeps people out. The autistic person has a difficult time at finding that balance in eye contact that looks natural.
Another one of the autistic characteristics is repetitive behavior. This is something seems sort of out of place when it comes to autism, but it is something that is experienced both in mild and severe cases. You’ve probably talked to a person before that seemed to drag the conversation, for no apparent reason, back to a specific topic. It’s hard to assign this behavior directly to autism, since it could be just a passionate person, but autistic people like to repeat the same sort of conversations. Through body language you should be able to tell the difference between a person that is genuinely interested in the topic versus a person that out of nowhere changes the topic on a regular basis.
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