| The main symptoms of autism are of the social and | | | | expressive of their own feelings and they are not |
| communicative nature, even though there are many | | | | sensitive to that of others. |
| more unusual behaviors and associated symptoms | | | | Most children with autism have significant delays in their |
| related to this psychological condition. Sufferers of | | | | ability to learn to speak, and there are several cases in |
| autism tend never to share their own enjoyment with | | | | which the patient actually never learns to speak at all. |
| others and never share in the enjoyment of others. | | | | Plus, the fact that they don't make gestures often also |
| Even in their infant stages, when people make | | | | contributes to their inability to replace their ominously |
| gestures and smiles at them, they never respond with | | | | missing speech with signs and gesticulations. If they do |
| that communal smile like babies often do. For a | | | | speak, many times they tend to just repeat what you |
| specialist in the profession, this is enough for an initial | | | | have spoken to them back at you in what you may |
| diagnosis, although some people think it is inconclusive. | | | | think of as a parrot syndrome. |
| Autistic children make poor eye contact if at all, and | | | | As a matter of fact, they could repeat whole parts of |
| rarely ever imitate sounds made to them. And in | | | | a movie, play or event to you verbatim as though they |
| addition to that, they do not make gestures of their | | | | had some amazing ability, but then they could refuse |
| own or respond to those of others. An autism patient | | | | to talk about anything else. Autistic patients tend to |
| will rarely ever point at anyone or anything, and like a | | | | also misuse pronouns, often using the second person in |
| stubborn cat, they would rather look everywhere else | | | | conversation to refer to themselves, and as they age, |
| than at the object you are pointing to. They do not | | | | they rarely ever lose this symptom even if other |
| make friends very well, and neither connect with their | | | | characteristics improve their perceptibly. |
| parents, siblings or caregivers because they are not | | | | |