Autistic children the most lonely

After a treatment courses (30 days) of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment, one suffering from autism in children 5 years old boy first initiative to lend a hand in his mother\'s skirt, young mother suddenly tears, but issued a happy laughter. Finally had a feeling of attachment to mother of her children. This is recent in Tongzhou, Beijing, an ordinary family scene. This is the second artillery corps General Hospital Pediatric therapy in the treatment of autism in children by TCM and WM\'s remarkable achievements, this reporter recently interviewed the boy\'s attending physician, the PLA second artillery corps Deputy Director of the General Hospital of Pediatrics Professor Li fang.

Minister Li said that children with autism and autism in children, is a mental illness. It to serious loneliness, lack of emotional response, developmental disorders of language, stereotyped repetitive movements and characterized strange reaction on the environment. Foreign information indicating that Western children autism incidence has risen from three out of 10,000 to four of the current twenty out of 10,000. Because morbidity increased gradually, began to attract attention and study, but no exact statistics.

Minister Li said, pathogenesis of this disease in infants born within 30 months, that is, onset before the age of 3. Onset usually come in two forms: one is the outset growth has lagged behind other children; the other for late-onset, with the cause of intellectual. Is etiology is not clear, but it is conjectured there are four key areas: genetic; brain injury, particularly maternal, perinatal, delivery periods can easily lead to infant brain damage; immune dysfunction; socio-psychological effects, such as the parents themselves isolated and comparative indifference to their children, thus affecting the child\'s psychological.

On the clinical manifestations, director Li said, there are three main areas: (1) communication barriers. Such children from infancy wouldn\'t let hold, regardless of their parents or are strangers, being held does not react when; \"defiant\", unwilling to each other and people, and so on. (2) the language barrier. Born does not love words, but listening system intact. Learn to speak, is not ready to speak. As for the children of late-onset, incidence of once, it does not say, and say. No words can say, do not understand or difficult to understand what others say, such children pronunciation systems are quite normal. But generally in children with egocentric language, have their own way of expression. Love yourself, muttered like usual, others do not understand what he is saying; or characterized by sudden screaming, shouting. (3) acts stiff and rigid. Actions a day is fixed. From a to the other side of the room, always repeat the same route; cycle of doing the same action, with a story, do the same puzzle. Different clinical manifestations of children varied, different symptoms different, some children appear as repeating other people\'s language, such as, the adults said: \"ask aunt good. \"He said:\" ask aunt good. \"And the response of normal child should be\" aunt good. ”

Minister Li said, the disease belongs to the universal developmental disorders. Begin to emerge from infancy, can be extended to life, is a serious emotional disorder disease. If not early detection, early intervention, will seriously affect the child\'s intellectual development, and profoundly affect the child\'s personality development and even become disabled. Self attacks can occur in some patients such as self-mutilation, and some serious social disorder, have a heavy burden on society, the family will.

Treatment involving parents of autistic children, paediatricians, psychologists, special education teacher, and so on. Current awareness and medical technologies, the disease also no immediate treatment methods and means, there is no cure, all treatment is in trial and error phase. Respected education abroad, rehabilitation training, such as language, social interaction, emotional exchange of training. But the recovery rate is only 30%. Training in this area in China is relatively lagging behind, General treatment for a learning from and imitating the West\'s training approach, such as music therapy, induced by various methods such as the piano. Director Lee opined that, although the above methods to improve the overall intelligence development is better, but treatment should be directed at individual children, because children with different emphases and different causes of disease. Lee, in the opinion, with combination of Chinese and Western therapy is better, such as acupuncture and moxibustion therapy of traditional Chinese medicine and aid to rehabilitation training on curative effect of brain injury children better.

Of non-language communication in children with autism are normal

Non-language Exchange is means with gesture, and posture, and facial expression to expression own of wishes and requirements, research found, children in get language zhiqian, has can with non-language of way exchange, adult common posture to and children for Exchange, for example with means with a object of action to caused 8-9 months baby of note, then soon, baby also can with pointing and posture as early exchange way. At the age of 1, baby not only with the pointing. Gesture description objects exist, and \"request\" to obtain certain objects, while also able to check their posture can cause adult attention paid to the object. Force pull parents hand or clothes and then pointing to objects represent their own requirements. This and at one point his focus ability to attract the attention of the social partners is one of the important ways of social. After 2 years, with the primary ability of language, words and gestures combined with an effective way to communicate. While using facial expressions to express their likes and dislikes.

Non-language communication skills in children with autism are damaged, they often can not understand other people\'s position. Significance of facial expression, and some even know what the others pose or use gestures, facial expressions to communicate with others. They lack their own focus and ability to attract the attention of the social partners at one point, well himself watching something to attract others \' attention. When talking with others, no social face, such as smile, watching others, speak no nod when head movement, rarely used gesture, gestures to express their will. When they have some wishes, often by noisy, crying to express requires parents struggled to understand why they cry loud.

Early manifestations of autism!

In China, because the practice of family planning policy, parents lack experience with a normal child. Therefore, even if some characteristics children in infancy, have shown, also tend to be ignored. Until the age of 3-4, development of the child when the extent of the problem has to do not doubt, is thought to bring him to the hospital, just missed the early intervention for children.

How early identification? The following information for parents \' reference:

Early features of autism in children. (Before the age of two)

Birth: no features.

3-10 days: there is no obvious features.

4-6: constant crying, but not because of demand, such as hungry.

3-4 months: response not to laugh or tease to the outside world did not laugh, don\'t know their parents.

6-7 months: not interested in toys, while others are to hold him, not out of the arm. High body stiffness or relaxation when weak, don\'t like head leaned upon adult, not murmured.

10-12 months: lack of interest on the surrounding environment, are alone is met. Cry for a long time, often stereotyped behaviour (shaking bodies, beating the article). Holding toys will not play, but a fixed action. Each other and mothers lack of eyes. For other people cannot distinguish, lack of response of sound (like deafness), no fingers of persons or goods, does not mimic the actions and language retardation (pronounced monotone, or bizarre sounds, not imitating pronunciation, much less meaningful sound).

21-24 months: sleeping instability, sometimes even overnight without sleep. Do not chew things, eat only gruel-like food or liquid diet. Like to see fixed things, stereotyped hand movements (such as; rotate, flip, beating, scratching, etc). Muscle relaxation, often fall down. Lack of eye eyes, only when a sweep is transferred elsewhere. There is no sense of curiosity, concern about environmental change or fear. Mechanically repeat may occur, but slowly, and understanding of the word.

How can I get rid of loneliness

Coincided with the marriageable age for boys and girls experience the loneliness is not terrible, this is a manifestation of self-consciousness. But if you cannot come out from a lonely in the end, always trying to avoid social, last may isolate himself, had no access to the growing need of information and emotional support, and was deeply distressed.


To want to get rid of lonely effort from both directions, one direction is their initiative to get others, is in one direction by changing ourselves, so that others are willing to close their own. Proactively close to others the best way, is the concern, help others. When you see people around a Challenge when if you proactively reach out to give a hand, is probably won for himself a friend, and thus help themselves from loneliness.


Man without a will like to pull all day, no one will like a thou proud people face. If you yearn for friendship and a friend, you need to change yourself to some extent. Maybe you does not want to act as others, but I just don\'t know what to do or worry that others will ignore you. Never mind, first, starting from meeting every morning. If you can take every day a cordial smile to the face of your classmates, colleagues, does not care about others is active, whether you are nodding, adhere to a few days, you see what result? Japan total a psychologist hakozaki said: \"cordial to others is the first step to dispense their own loneliness. \"If you can try to find some common topic, or to actively ask others for advice, it is easy to break the impasse.


If you want to have friends, you can\'t think themselves. Always \"I\" who placed in the mouth, most hiring offensive. If and when the others, you don\'t know how to respect others, always feel free to interrupt people, or say something stimulating people, who refuse to come down, or always wanted to and people vie with each other to see who is better, everywhere looked you right, I\'m afraid you are very difficult to have friends and friendship. So, get rid of loneliness, starting from their own.

Most typical feature of autism

1. social communication barrier
This is the biggest problem facing children with autism. Their indifference to things around, it is difficult to experience the emotions and feelings of others, nor the right to express their emotions and feelings. Children with autism \"blind area of thinking\" (mind blind), they seem to think that things exist in their own minds, also exist in the minds of others, is no different to each other. That is, they usually think of feeling is the feeling of others, but this does not mean that they have no feelings.

2. lack of ability to learn and imitate
\"Copying\" is the most important tools of children learning, the child is to learn to speak by imitation, learning use silent body language, gestures and facial expressions to communicate. But do not know how to imitate in children with autism.

3. language barrier highlighted
Most of the very few children with speech, even in severe cases, not for life. Even children with some talk, also preferred to use gesture instead of the language, or only mechanically imitate other people\'s language, and often I can\'t tell you.

4. interest is narrow, rigid, demanding on the environment, does not allow the slightest changes
Children will usually focuses on one or more long time certain types of games, often repeat some fixed rigid motions, and even acts of self-mutilation.

5. the imbalance in the most backward or intellectual development
Mental retardation in children with 70%, but in some areas may have special capabilities; 20% intelligence in the normal range, about 10% exceptional talent, performance is sensitive to the music, art, or extraordinary memory, and so on. However, the puzzling is that even children can easily read or recite, but he can\'t use his mastery of language and human exchanges.

6. most children feel abnormal problem
Have special preferences to certain sounds, such as images or fear or pain dull and so on.