For every 1 in 250 children, a child is diagnosed with autism, and that number increases still today. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability, where the brain becomes slower and the person is unable to learn as quickly as others, affecting the cognitive abilities; hand-eye coordination and often impairments in social interactions. Dealing with autism from the outside looking in, is very difficult for some to process or understand. As well as the child being affected, the families are too, taking a toll emotionally. The paper will discuss autism, the benefits, as well as the flaws, of having it, and finally the help that is provided. Many people, like said above, are affected by the disability other than the person themselves. The person who is dealing with …show more content…
Her husband eventually said, “Shelly, you are letting autism beat you. Don't let it win” (Huntenan, web). She had to see a grief counselor and then eventually a therapist. Though soon after discussing her stress, Huntanen, was able to overcome it all and focus on her son. Going through the same struggles of her own, 14 year old, Krista Buccallato, wrote the article, “Dealing with autism: A sister's perspective”, to tell her perspective on how she felt of her brother’s autism. In this article, she felt different from everyone else. She knew that noone treated her differently because of her younger brother for having autism, but she knew it wasn’t normal. She stated, “Sometimes it's hard because he doesn't understand” (Buccellato, web). It was hard, because it was different, it was hard, because he wasn’t like everyone else’s brother. He’s the “sweetest thing in the whole wide world”, and “cute”, as other people, including herself, would say, but he’s different and hard to control at times. She was able to talk about how it was hard to go in public with him, because no one knew what he was going to