Autism spectrum

The Autism Spectrum or Autistic Apectrum is a condition that affects people in many different ways. What is has in common in all those people has a few things:

  • It makes it harder for them to interact with other people
  • They like repetitive things and have a hard time dealing with changes
  • They have had it since they were a child

It is important to know that, just because people that have it must have it since they were a child, it doesn't meant they always had the same amount of problems and difficulties from it. Sometimes things are easier, sometimes not as much, because society can influence that a lot.[1]

History

Before people decided to call it autism spectrum, it used to be classified as many different things. Some cases were called "Autism", some were "Asperger Syndrome", some were "Rett Syndrome " and some were "Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)". For some people, Rett Syndrome is still a different thing and if you have it you are not in the autism spectrum.

Now, people think all those things are different ways of having the same thing, so it is now all called the same, and, since it has so many different ways of showing, it is called a spectrum.

References
  1. "ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics". icd.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-19.


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