Autism Facts - Four Helpful Facts About the Disorder That Lots of People Know Nothing About

Many people say they know all there is to know aboutyielded definitive results that can be backed by
autism but when you start asking them questions, itscientific proof.
becomes clear that they know nothing much about it.3 - Autism itself is called classic autism, one of a class
This article looks at 4 shattering facts about autismof five syndromes classified as PDDs - Pervasive
and autism spectrum disorders you should be awareDevelopmental Disorders. Basically, they all share the
of.same symptoms except that the severity of the
1 - Autism does not go into remission with the comingwarning signs and the time of their onset in the patient.
of age. If anything, the reality of it gets worse. ExceptIn some cases, some of the symptoms are missing; in
for a few instances in which the sufferer may haveother cases the symptoms are severe enough to
high functioning autism and can function on their own inresult in the death of the patient.
the society, most patients have to be supported4 - Autistic disorder is more common in boys than in
throughout their lives and close watch kept over them.girls; in fact, there are four times as many boys who
2 - Autism was once believed to have been causedsuffer from the disease than there are girls. However,
by the "refrigerator mother" syndrome in which the setwhen girls have autism, their condition is so much more
of symptoms that characterize the disease are as aserious than that of the average male autism patient.
result of coldness from the mother. Understandably,Rett's syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder that
many mothers of autistic children were devastated byaffects only girls and is very severe. Sometimes, this
this report that was only rescinded late in the lastcondition results in the death of the patient due to loss
century. More theories have sprung up, but none hasof motor skills, seizures and irregular breathing.