Lining things up is perhaps the most favorite pastime that we know to be common to all children that suffer from autism. If you gave them toys to play with, the child would just line them up and sit watching them work without pride or prejudice. Doctors kind of find this difficult to explain, and parents often just get fed up with the practice, but there is little anyone can do about it without it amounting to abuse. So, let them be, so long as they are happy. I am not very excited about the fact that autistic children are able to do lots things better than or at least the same as regular kids. What beats me is that they are not able to communicate. Genuinely, I think all those savant skills that the kids posses are wasted if the kid never gets to enjoy them or appreciate what they are doing. If you have a sibling or friend who suffers from autism, they must have had it since when they were a baby. Chances are that folks had a lot of trouble with them then too. So he or she is an adult now, which is good; however you cannot have them living alone. Sure they may have improved, and the chances are that there will not be a relapse, but they still need the presence of someone healthy to help with some mundane things that might not be so easy for them. However desperate you must feel about getting your autistic child some help and healing, you cannot overlook treatments with interpersonal, behavioral, and communication principles embedded in them. Remember that the goals you are trying to reach are educational ones, and that everyone who knows the child must be involved. This last should not be too difficult anyway, because most people usually feel nothing but compassion for autistic kids.
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