Autism

    Autism is a behaviour syndrome, a disorder, a lack of balance of the nervous system expressed by a diminution of social interaction, communication, interests and restrictive and repeated activities. Unfortunately for these children and for those who have just been born and could be affected and for us as parents, the causes are still unknown, although the theories are numerous. All the symptoms appear before the age of three and in most cases (75% of the autistic children) are accompanied by mental retardation. Beside these reduced and even severe intellectual abilities other difficulties in behaviour appear too, such as: hyperactivity and aggressively towards themselves and/or towards the people around. Although the behaviour patterns almost similar for all the autistic children, there are distinct peculiarities for each of them.

    For Bianca and Sabina, the autistic disorder manifests by a diminished interest towards the environment, an almost imperceptible speech (a few, half, uttered and incorrect words, various self stimulations, scowling look, gazing at light, whirling in circle, walking on tiptoes, back and forward, waving the hands, uttering senseless sounds, repeated screams, mumbling, placing objects, putting them into mouth, turning on the switches repeated by, shutting and opening the doors, and drawers, turning on and off the electronic devices, running up and down the stairs, the fixation for some books, drawings, songs, hyperactivity and lack of attention. What is not related to autism is their wonderful smile, very rare indeed, but we are happy about it and about the kisses they give us, even if they are requested to do it, their beauty, in spite of their disorder, their sweetness that give us hope and fill our souls with joy.

    The treatment for autism does not consist of medicines. The only chance, up to now (it is based on concrete results, no matter what degree of autism the child has), for these children is the applied behaviour analysis and the homeopath treatment which seems to gain ground. Our fight and our children’s fight is on the long run, because after two or three years of intense work we can say that they become independent and are coming closer to “normality”, and all these depend on the age when they start working on it, how much they are affected by it and mostly the involvement of parents. Believe me I know what this means … it is difficult, very difficult. Even our soul of parents  has become autistic. The dreams we once had for them have lost their voice… the world is no longer  as meaningful… all the other things are insignificant … and still we have not lost hope…we wish there was therapy for our own souls.

    The pain of a parent, in such cases, cannot be put into words… it is impossible for me to describe such a state of mind! And still… although we are at the beginning of road and  we can only imagine the difficulties to come, I see a sense in this autism.. now, I know for sure that I will give more importance to words like: “mother”, “father”,” I want”, “ I like”, “ I wish”,  “ I love you” and even to my own children.

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