What are the symptoms of autism in infancy?

In modern society, there are more and more children with autism in infancy. What is the reason? Maybe it’s because parents are too busy with work to take care of their children’s growth and health. Parents often ignore their children's mental health, which results in them not knowing that their children are suffering from autism. If children remain in an autistic state, it will be very harmful to them. However, we can understand whether a child has autism from the following manifestations.

1. Extreme loneliness, also known as "introverted loneliness". It manifests as an inability to emotionally communicate with others, including a lack of laughter and intimate emotional responses even to the parents who raised them. When a baby is held in his mother's arms to feed him, he refuses to press his body close to the adult; when the adult reaches out to hug him, he does not show the same welcoming posture as other children. When he grows up a little, he shows no interest in the people around him, and seems to be as indifferent to people as to objects.

2. Speech communication barriers. Speech development is often delayed or poor, including verbal expression and non-verbal communication. Usually the child remains silent. Sometimes speech development is normal before the age of two, but stagnates after that. Language dysfunction reflects cognitive defects. Children with this disorder cannot participate in imitative games, cannot play with toys correctly when they are older, and have no creative or imaginative play activities. If it has language function, it is of a stereotyped imitation nature and has no meaning.

3. Compulsively stick to the same stereotyped pattern. This means that in addition to stereotyped behavior, the child shows discomfort with any changes in the environment - compulsively sticking to the same environment, eating the same food over and over again, insisting on wearing the same clothes, and playing the same games over and over again.

4. Special expressions of attachment. Show special interest in inanimate objects or animals (cups, bricks, dogs, chickens, etc.), and even develop attachment. If the attachment object is taken away, the child will experience severe anxiety or cry loudly. When he got it back, he showed calmness and satisfaction. But he has no interest in people at all.

Parents can make a preliminary judgment on whether their child really has autism based on the above four symptoms. If the symptoms are consistent, parents are advised to take their children for treatment. Don’t ignore autism. If it develops over a long period of time, it will cause great harm to the child. No parent would want their child to live in his or her own closed space forever.