Autism Characteristics
Some of the characteristics displayed in people with autism are:
- Delay or lack or loss of speech
- Lack of eye contact
- Lack of response to other people
- Treating others as if they were inanimate objects
- Repetitive behaviors such as spinning or flapping hands
- Balancing in precarious places
- Eating, sleeping, and toileting difficulties
- Extreme dislike of certain noises or textures
- Extremely passive or extremely active behaviors
- Dislike of being touched
- Over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to pain or sound
- Failure to demonstrate typical signs of affection
- No fear of danger
- Restrictive range of interests
- Extreme dislike of certain foods
- Aggressive behavior
- Lack of interest in toys
- Desire to keep objects in rigid patterns
- Desire to follow certain patterns of behavior
- Self injurious behavior
- Areas of advanced skill (in art, music, arithmetic, calendar, or memory)
