| For unexplained reasons, autistic children show | | | | receive signals like smells, light or sound as painful. |
| obsessions to particular objects, sometimes even a | | | | Many are bothered by the touch of the clothes on |
| strange kind of attachment towards them, and act by | | | | their skin and cannot concentrate on anything else and |
| repetitive senseless actions. Their repetitive behavior | | | | others resist cuddling as a damaging action. Gentle |
| has been given more potential explanation; some | | | | hugs are overwhelming for them and they resist any |
| scientists see it as an attempt to maintain stability in | | | | affection attempt. Sounds caused by vacuum cleaner, |
| their own world, others say it is an essay to use their | | | | telephone, airplane or wind evoke screams and the |
| well developed functions or on the contrary to develop | | | | children cover their years. |
| a lower function. | | | | Scientists believe their hearing level is turned on |
| This strange repetitive behavior also limits their | | | | maximum and they hear any slow sound at super loud |
| imaginative play options. Normally developed children | | | | level. This is the reason for them ignoring sounds and |
| like to pretend they are someone else and give a toy | | | | acting like deaf in spite of their normal hearing sense. |
| many other uses. But autistics do not like to pretend or | | | | The brain is also unable to equilibrate sensations in a |
| play with toys, they simply smell, analyze and touch it | | | | realistic way so they ignore extreme cold or pain but |
| continuously for several hours. | | | | react aggressively to perfectly normal things. A simple |
| Autism impedes children to create an objective and | | | | light can provoke hysteria while breaking an arm can |
| real opinion of the world as they cannot use their | | | | pass unnoticed. Sometimes senses are scrambled |
| senses in a beneficial way. Sensor perceptions like | | | | inside their brain and they hear a sound while being |
| seeing, hearing or touching create a disturbed even | | | | touched or when seeing a certain texture or color. |
| painful sensation for the autistic child and lead to | | | | Maybe in order to compensate their many difficulties |
| confusion. Information collected by all senses never | | | | and defaults, some autistic patients have extraordinary |
| merges into a coherent picture that might help them | | | | abilities like drawing three-dimensional realistic pictures |
| perceive a normal reality. The causes of these | | | | at a very young age, or begin to read perfectly at the |
| problems seem to be disturbed signals that get to the | | | | age of two. Other children can play an instrument they |
| brain or on the other hand a wrong integration of the | | | | have never heard before, remember exact dates, |
| sensory signals. Most accepted theory is the | | | | being able to perform rapidly very complex operations |
| contribution of both pathological variants to the autistic | | | | names and numbers, sing a song they have only heard |
| disorder. | | | | once and memorize entire books or television series. |
| As a result to a disturbed brain function, autistics | | | | But such intelligence skills are very rare encountered. |