What are the symptoms of autism in children

If autistic children are not discovered and treated early, it will have a very serious impact on their future lives. They will show symptoms such as social disorders, language and communication disorders, and repetitive and limited behavior patterns.

1. Social skills barriers

People with autism lack the ability to learn to recognize their relationships with others and basic social coping skills. Therefore, from a young age, they may ignore people, not look at people, lack response to people, are not afraid of strangers, and have difficulty establishing family relationships. In terms of group life, due to their narrow interests and weak imitation ability, they often fail to master social skills and lack cooperation. At the same time, due to their weak imagination, they rarely engage in symbolic play activities using toys. Difficulties such as difficulty understanding other people's emotions and feelings, and inability to express one's own emotions in a way that is acceptable to others.

2. Language and communication barriers

People with autism have varying degrees of difficulty in understanding other people's spoken language, body language, or expressing their meaning through language, gestures, and facial expressions. The content of their conversations is mostly limited to a few topics, or only uses a few words. About 50% of autistic children do not have communicative language; and those with speech often show characteristics such as parrot-like imitation, pronoun reversal, irrelevant answers, and lack of tone changes. They also have difficulty understanding non-verbal communication (such as gestures), and are usually not very good at using body language to communicate with others.

3. Repetitive and limited behavior patterns

Children with autism often have some fixed habits or ways of playing that are different from those of normal children, such as taking a certain route when going out, special and fixed clothing, food, housing and transportation habits, narrow and special interests, monotonous and repetitive ways of playing without changes, fixed environment layout, etc. If there is a slight change, they cannot accept it and resist and cry. People with autism may also be fascinated by repetitive behaviors such as pressing buttons, opening and closing doors, and rotating objects. They may also exhibit abnormal stereotyped behaviors such as shaking, spinning the body, and clapping their hands.