Random Facts

It's becoming difficult for me to come up with more things to post a blog on involving autism. But, since there's only two more weeks of school left, I feel like I can handle just two more posts.

This week I figured I would google some things about autism and post some things that I thought were cool. Some of these things I didn't know myself...

Like, I didn't know that autism was once considered a form of schizophrenia. This seems weird to me because I've seen cases of both and they seem so different. Another thing I didn't realize was that approximately 67 million people worldwide are affected by autism. That's a lot of people.

Some more cool facts:

• In families with one autistic child, the risk of having a second child with the disorder is approximately 5%, or one in 20.
• Some cases of autism may be associated with a family history of manic depression.
• From the Greek autos meaning “self,” autism literally means “alone."
• There is no blood test, no scan, and no image that can detect autism. Diagnosis relies on behavioral observation and screening.

So, I must admit that this is all off of the internet. However, I like to think that I know my fair share about autism. I really enjoy learning more about autism and I can only hope that one day I'll learn that there is, at last, a cure.

I got these facts from this website.