>>11190207Which kind of autism do you mean ?
Naoki Higashida is a thirteen-year-old Japanese with autism. He communicates with the world through a special board. There are forty basic signs of the hiragana system, digits, the words "end", "yes" and "no". The boy indicates the appropriate signs and his assistant rewrites them. In this way, Naoki "wrote" poems and stories. The young man also has his own blog, where he writes everyday life from the autistic point of view, but the blackboard distracts him less than a computer.
He tells us why he cannot communicate through speech, why it is easier for him to write. The mother tongue of an autistic person resembles a foreign language. C hory often forgets a word or does not know how to use it correctly. He or she has to think about the answer. Well, sick people think and grow up in the same way as healthy people, but do not have control over their bodies and do not know how to sift through stimuli. We do it subconsciously. We are able to focus on one thing, ignoring everything else. Now imagine that all sounds, smells and images reach you with the same force. There is no concept of time. What happened a moment ago is just as clear as the memory of a few weeks ago. For me, it sounds like a nightmare I can't quite understand. For people like Naomi, it's everyday life. They have to learn to isolate their stimuli, express their needs and control their bodies. What is natural for us is often impossible for them.
He tells us that autistic people have feelings like everyone else, but they don't know how to show it. He also explains why, on the one hand, he can't sit still and on the other, his favorite game is to play with toys in a row.
