ASD ---> Autism Spectrum Disorder is a complex development disability. It's a neurological disorder that has an effect on normal brain function. ASD is a wide spread disorder which means no 2 people have exact same symptoms.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS:
- - it presents during the first three years of a person's life
- - ASD affects person's communication and social interaction skills
- - people with autism have difficulties to understand the feelings of other people
- - psychologists estimated that boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls
- - people with Autism have often obsessions
- - it's important to realize that people with Autism have feelings too
- - children with Autism may learn much faster than other children
AUTISM and EMOTIONS:
People with Autism can become very frustrated with many moments in their lives. They can't express, verbalize, or understand what they feel which makes them nervous and even more stressed. These people need more help to learn how to deal with the upsets of everyday life and more time to learn how to express their emotions and what they really feel.
People with Autism report greater levels of negative emotion in general.
People with Autism have lack of effective emotion regulation strategies.
Strategies: Reappraisal-reevaluate what just happened
Suppression-hiding your true feelings
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