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SYMPYOMS OF AUTISM
Communication and
01 Language Disorders Slow Development 02
Emotional Disorder
03 Lack of Eye Contact
04
Never Make Eye
05 Contact Repeated Action
06
Don’t Smile
07 Need Excessive
Attention 08
Patience. Patience. Patience. Work to view my “I’ve learned that every human being,
autism as a different ability rather than with or without disabilities, needs to
disability. Look past what you may see as strive to do their best, and by striving
limitations and see the gifts autism has given for happiness you will arrive at
me. It may be true that I’m not good at eye happiness. For us, you see, having
contact or conversation, but have you noticed
that I don’t lie, cheat at games, tattle on my autism is normal—so we can’t know
classmates or pass judgment on other for sure what your ‘normal’ is even
people? Also true that I probably won’t be the like. But so long as we can learn to
next Michael Jordan. But with my attention to love ourselves, I’m not sure how
fine detail and capacity for extraordinary much it matters whether we’re
focus, I might be the next Einstein. Or Mozart. normal or autistic.”
Or van Gogh. – Ellen Notbohm (Award – Naoki Higashida (Japanese author)
Winning Author)
