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April 2nd marks the eleventh annual World Autism Awareness Day.
Currently, the rate of teens diagnosed with autism is estimated at 1 to 68 worldwide with an increasing ratio year by year.
Over 10 million people suffer from the disease in China with half of them teens aged below 14 years old.
Autism is a form of pervasive developmental disorder. People get the disease due to insufficient attention from their parents or punishment from parents’ bad behavior.
Autistic people require others understanding their needs as they are more likely to be considered as aliens, rather than geniuses.
One could hardly imagine the difficulty children who are isolated from community and society suffer at the start of their development.
Many parents use their own money and time to help their children catch up their educational development to the same standards of others.
Each tiny progress of an "autistic child" is the result of a tremendous effort by their family and by the child themselves.
Research suggests that family members, especially parents of autistic children, face the same pressure levels as soldiers in war zones do.
They guard their children as the disorder has unknown causes, unspecified treatments and uncertain futures.
Therefore, people need to pay more attention to family members of autistic people, as their lives are not easy.
Till now, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has been proved as the scientifically effective intervention method.
If you see problematic behaviors of autistic people, please do not gaze at or discriminate them.
If your child happens to be a classmate of an autistic child, please instruct them to provide the necessary help and care to their peer.
If you see a kid hanging around alone for a long time and they do not know how to answer your questions, you should call the police for assistance immediately.
(CGTN)
