Autism / Autism Spectrum Support Group
Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder which manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.
Does any of your children have a phobia(s)
I have a phobia of the following:-
dogs
darkness
horses
vomiting
I have a phobia of the following:-
dogs
darkness
horses
vomiting
There are about 5 common Autism phobias...
Luv,
Kris
1. Autistic people are so many times afraid of Butterflies... The reason is because their wings when they flap have a very horrible sound and also their wings flap too fast causing too much stimulus... If I am near a butterfly most people would think I'm severely autistic. Things will be in a wreck because I flip out so bad.
2. Not mentioned as much but very much a phobia in some Autistic people is certain letters of the alphabet (the sound especially), numbers and certain punctuation marks in the English language. Some kids will constantly get math prob. wrong and punctuation points taken away, but what lots of people will not think about is "why"--as far as refusing to write the number or punctuation symbol...also some Autistic people get really upset over a color which in this case is more to do with the brightness or what they think of it as referring to a texture because something else that upsets them has that color.
--Think of the conditioning experiment w/ little Albert and the 'white' mouse.
(Autistic people are conditioned very easily)
3. The size and thickness of things have been known to bother lots of people on the spectrum--for some it is big and round things like pots, for others small long things like railing bars...very hard to explain. It is a phobia that affects many autistic people. (there is a great representation of this in 'Silent Fall'...look on my 'autism movies' page and it will be there shortly.
4. Also, fuzzy things really affect the eyes of autistic people and therefore can bother them a lot so bad it becomes a phobia. (specific type of fuzziness -- not like fur)
5. Last 1 coming...
** Sometimes wonder why I had to have all 5 but many other Autistic people have all of them too, which is why they are known as 'autistic phobias' in their own category.
Kris