Understanding Asperger’s Syndrome Symptoms And The Reasons Behind It
If you are looking for physical symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome, then you may find it hard to do so. Although clumsiness and awkwardness is part of the condition. People with Asperger’s look normal, except for certain Asperger’s behavior that you will notice once you start talking to them. This is except for those who are diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, as it sometimes goes along with Asperger’s syndrome. Tourette’s syndrome, or tics as others call it, is the condition wherein a person has uncontrolled and repetitive actions such as blinking, coughing or twitching. Diagnosing Asperger’s syndrome is usually done while also testing for ADHD. There have been occurrences of Doctors having mistaken Aspergers for ADHD and some believe the two are found together although the symptoms are not closely similar.
Early signs of Asperger’s would include lack of motor skills in a child. They would have difficulty pedaling a bike, catching a ball, and other activities that involve motor skills. It is more common for boys to have Asperger’s than girls with Asperger’s as the symptoms displayed in girls is a much lesser degree and is often referred to as Mild Asperger’s. Since this syndrome is a developmental disorder that affects social behavior, the most common Asperger’s behavior is the lack of social and communication skills. Patients diagnosed with such syndrome find it hard to fit in or blend in society and become irritated when presented with a large crowd. Most of the time, they cannot even understand a joke or recognize sarcasm and also would have difficulty understanding nonverbal communication.
There is a reason why others would nick name this syndrome the wrong planet syndrome, which is because of the lack of social and communication skills of patients with such syndrome. Interaction with more than one person at a time causes high stress level and nervous reactions that can, if left alone, lead to seemingly violent behavior that is brought on by the patients inability to cope. They also have the feeling that they are normal and are living in a world that is full of aliens because most of the time, they cannot understand other people very well. Others who do not know about their condition may find them rigid or cold, which is actually an effect of Asperger’s behavior. It is also normal for them to feel anxious most of the time because they can simply misunderstand the true meaning behind words.
It is also a normal Asperger’s behavior to have a set of preferred and non-preferred activities. This means that there is no in-between or so-so feeling about them when doing an activity. They would either love or like the activity or simply hate it. That’s just about the two choices they have. This is part of the Asperger’s behavior that is associated with their black-and-white thinking or mentality. So it would be sort of useless forcing an activity that they don’t like even if you reason with them; but that’s not to say that they won’t do it, they would do it sooner or later after they finish their preferred activity first.
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