AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS.
Could there be as many definitions of autism as there are people with autism? In Israel the prevalence ranges from 1 to 180 cases of autism births to 1 for 98, with a ratio of 6 boys for each 1 girl.
Autism, despite very different forms, can be identified by three essential characteristics:
- A difficulty with social interactions,
- Qualitative impairment in communication,
- A set of restricted or repetitive and stereotypical behaviors, actions and activities.
These criteria are not sufficient to describe the complexity of a person with autism’s special thoughts, his relationship to space and time, as well as idiosyncratic language. Autistic defenses make interaction with others very difficult. People with autism are isolated by an endless whisper, contained as the Other behind a wall they build. Their rituals and obsessive characteristics prevent any intrusion of others into their world. The autistic person creates a closed world with bridges barricaded against whoever might be dangerous or threatening.
They are isolated by an endless whisper, contained as “the Other” behind walls that they build.
"Bizarre, a little as if they came from another country and even from another planet. But really not. What is good is that they are with us. They are close by. They necessarily have plenty to teach us, even when they frighten us.” Howard Buten
Fantasies are constructed around the word autism attributing to the autistic person power, knowledge, and genius.
While this is true for a very small percentage who have what is called an island of intelligence, the reality of the person with autism and his family is better described as unbearable, crying, fear, a life cut off from society where night and day are confused and / or a simple gesture can be repeated endlessly.
Autism is a complex pathology. There is not, at present, despite numerous scientific studies - especially in neurosciences – a single origin to autism but rather, a multiple origins. The same terminology of autism has given way to an even broader term:
AUTISM SPECTRUM
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