Autism And Literacy – Learning And Living With Autism

They say ignorance is bliss, but I beg to differ. They say what you don’t know cannot kill you, but I insist that what people do not know is killing thousands of human beings all over the world today.

There isn’t that much in fact that is known about autism today, save that we don’t know precisely what causes the developmental disorder, or how it can be cured. But we do know that the disease itself is not characteristically a killer disease. Save for Rett’s syndrome, a kind of low functioning pervasive developmental disorder on the autism spectrum, which sometimes kills the female patients suffering from it due to respiratory complications, autism generally does not kill.

However, living in a shell of your own, unable to communicate with the entire world, and being unable to be communicated with is a fate that I would personally consider to be worse than death.

Autism strips you of your ability to learn, to communicate, to make friends, or grow in any manner besides physically. Those who are suffering from it do not know how bad their condition is, but they have to live with it. However, the condition is perhaps worse for the loved ones and family members of autistic patients. They have to live with the sufferers and clean up after them when they mess things up, not that this happens very often.

Of course, living with autism in any manner – as the sufferer, or as a loved one – is a very difficult life indeed. But living ignorant of the consequences of autism is even worse. When you don’t know what the symptoms are or what they mean, when you don’t know how to care for the sufferer of the disease, or for your own self, the clock is just ticking until the time that you will eventually make a mistake that will either hurt you or the person suffering from the disease in a way that is unchangeable.

So what, ignorance is bliss? Absolutely not! But knowledge is indeed power.

If you will hit the internet to read up on autism and how to care for autistic patients, if you will take your suffering loved one out one day to see the doctor or some specialist that will put you through how you can care for the high autistic patient whether they are suffering from high or low functioning autism, then you would have armed yourself with power. You would then have the power to live with a devastating disorder, the power to thrive in the face of overwhelming and demoralizing odds.

You are better off learning about autism than playing the fool. Start to gather more knowledge today about how you will win over the disorder that will make a mess of your life.