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Imagine a world where everyone and everything is loud. You have no control and the world seems chaotic. No one understands you. That would be too easy. Something is not right: the lights, the people, you do not know. You scream. You are just so upset, you cannot think. It is difficult to even function. Something breaks. You can hear it somewhere in the distance. When you come to, there is a hole in the wall and broken glass. When did this happen? Everyone is quiet and they are all staring at you. You look down. You have cuts on your hands. There are a few brave souls that venture towards you. They keep asking “what’s wrong?” and “what can I do to help?”. You want them to leave you alone. You just want someone to understand you even though sometimes you do not understand how to express your feelings. This is the kind of thing that sometimes happens to people that have autism. More specifically, it happens to those who have Asperger’s Syndrome. The situation above does not apply to everyone with Asperger’s Syndrome. Some people with Asperger’s learn to control it. For some people words that other people say or a change in the order of things will can cause a “meltdown” or what some people call sensory overload. A change that could cause a meltdown might be if their mom goes to a different store with them in tow. For a while a group of medical professionals were debating on whether to get rid of the word Aspergers and change to autism spectrum disorder. This would be problematic for many reasons. some of those reasons include how people are being overdiagnosed, facts about autism, and what scientists are finding out about autism. Autism is a disorder that affects the everyday life of people and their families. Autism can affect wh...

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...r or a piece of paper. These are just some of the reasons that we need to keep the words like Asperger’s in our vocabulary. If you would like to find out more about Autism and how it affects people you can find information online. One of the more helpful sources I have have is YouTube. There are a few youtubers that have some form of Autism and have made videos discussing how their autism affects them. There are also some videos that people have found and posted on youtube. There are plenty of books and web articles explaining what they think or feel, or what family members think or feel. Let me get one thing straight before I say anything else people that have Autism may act a little differently because they think differently this in itself is a gift and a cruse treating someone like an infant because of this can and will make you look like an idiot.