| Autism is a term that refers to a variety of | | | | Recent research has linked chromosomes with autism, |
| neurological developmental issues, and that affects | | | | and they may be guilty of something because in many |
| certain areas of the brain, the ones that are | | | | other affections of the brain, like the down syndrome, |
| responsible for the language skills, the interaction with | | | | chromosome anomalies are the cause. But if you |
| others, and many more, depending on each individual. | | | | compare the genes of an autistic with the genes of a |
| People that suffer from autism are acting differently | | | | normal person you aren't going to see any difference, |
| from each other, and because we know so little about | | | | so it can't be said that a certain gene or chromosome |
| the brain and the way it works it's hard to understand | | | | is guilty. |
| what causes this affection or what is the best method | | | | A large number of scientists also believe that some |
| of treating it. | | | | children are born with some anomalies and |
| Most of the doctors are convinced that the causes of | | | | predispositions in their genes, and these combined with |
| autism are genetic and are located in the brain only, | | | | several environmental factors cause autism to appear. |
| because many tests were performed on autistic | | | | Probably not a single gene is not normal, but more of |
| persons, and their organisms are identical to the | | | | them are slightly different and when the environmental |
| organisms of normal persons, so everything that has | | | | factors appear too, a 'button' is pushed and the |
| to do with this condition is in the brain. | | | | disability appears. |
| In the beginning, when autism was first discovered in | | | | Other theories suggest that a severe emotional |
| 1943 and there were very few cases that could be | | | | trauma may affect the brain so much that the victim |
| studied, people thought that autism was caused by | | | | withdraws from society and other people. |
| parents who raised their children wrong, did not show | | | | Until the future comes and medical science evolves to |
| them love and treated them bad, but this conception | | | | the point where the causes of autism are certain, we |
| was proved to be wrong soon. However, nobody | | | | can only suppose why it appears. Unfortunately, |
| discovered a certain cause of autism until this day, so | | | | because we don't know the causes we also don't |
| the reason why autistic persons are different is | | | | know how it can be cured. For now, we can only |
| unknown. There are some theories about what could | | | | hope, and help the autisics as much as we can. |
| be causing the disorder but nothing is certain. | | | | |