Thread: Autism
View Single Post
Old 10-18-2007, 04:53 PM   #4
Lissa
PF Visionary
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,758
Rep Power: 675
Reputation: 14777
Lissa has disabled reputation
Default Re: Autism

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaytee View Post
You are right that some of the symptoms are of a normal child. The think is, is that these children do not have one symptom they usually have many. And they don't improve./ Such as no eye contact, odd babbling, stressing in situations that a "noraml" child would not stress in. Then when they do stress, they usually do "odd" behaviors such as spinning in circles, screaming, not just normal screaming, but high pitch terror screams for 10-30 minutes at one time. Things like that
But don't you think toddlers and young children shouldn't be so quickly diagnosed because the symptoms can improve as they grow older? I mean obviously there is such a thing as autism. I'm just saying that children are children and eventually grow out of certain phases.
__________________


Lissa is offline   Reply With Quote