What is Classical Autism
A brief history
Classic Autism is sometimes called Key Autism, because it is the heaviest of the Autism Spectrum Disorders is. 67 years ago no one knew what autism was. Leo Kanner (June 13, 1894 - April 3rd or 4th, 1981) was the first doctor in the U.S. who got the title of child psychiatrist. In 1943 he published his first article about children with psychiatric problems.
In this book Kanner published an article entitled "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact." This article describes the first diagnosis of "Classic Autism" (then called "Early Infantile Autism"). Kanner did not know how important the article would become. Today the article published by Kanner, is fundimental to all the research being done worldwide to Autism. It is also the fundimental to all known ASD diagnoses.
A brief explanation
Everyone knows the movie "Rainman." This film is about a cars dealer whose father dies. After the funeral he was told that the family fortune of $ 3,000,000 goes to an unknown beneficiary. This unknown beneficiary appears to be his older brother Raymond. Raymond Classic Autism. The film, though greatly acted and on many points very truthful, makes some major stereotypes about autism do the rounds.
Because of the movie "Rainman" many people, when they hear the word "Autism" directly think off people with whom you can get no contact, who will scream when they hear a smoke detector and can see at a glance how many toothpicks fall from the box or know the entire phonebook from a to z. In part this is true. But not exactly.
People with autism live in their own world. They don't understand the world around them as the world around them does not understand them. Often, they feel like they come from "van een andere planeet" Because these people live in their own world, it is difficult to get contact with them. There are three things on wich a diagnosis is established. These are:
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Qualitative impairment in social interaction
(Difficulty in dealing with others, social situations) - Qualitative impairment in verbal and nonverbal communication
(Difficulty in understanding and using verbal and nonverbal communication) - Restricted, repetitive, stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities involving a disturbance in the imagination
Intresses activities and actions that repeat themselves over and over)(Restricted, repetitive, stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities involving a disturbance in the imagination)
At the page The characteristics I will talk extensively about the characteristics of Classical Autism hear.
It is important to know that all the characteristics do not have to be pressent in everyone with an ASD disorder. Furthermore, these characteristics can vary from moment to moment, depending on the mood of the person and the events around him or her. Recognizing yourself in these characteristics does not mean that you have autism. You can use the information on this website as a pretext for an test.
