Autism

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manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye contact, head banging, an insensitivity to pain, and other dangerous behavior. They are also often infatuated with inanimate objects.
About 50 % of all autistic individuals are mute, or only speak once or twice in their entire life span. Non mute autistic people can produce words and sentences, but have trouble using language as an effective means of communication. If they do develop useful speech, it starts to make sense and have purpose around the age 6 or 7. Even the best functioning autistic stutters, and has many problems communicating. They may display many strange language mechanics. For example, instead of saying, "I like to go fishing", they'll say, " You like to go fishing". They might also repeat a question rather than answering it. About 10% of autistic people display great consistency. They have great memory, fascination with mechanical objects, and ...

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