The mother interviewed narrates of how she remembers her son growing up like any other normal child with no signs or symptoms of autism disorder. Moreover, there was no family member from either the maternal home or paternal home with the disease. There was no single clue that the child could be infected with the disease until he reached five years old. This was when changes began to be noticed. He could get seizures for about two to three times a day. When asked about the disease, the mother clearly describes it a physical disorder that attacks the brain and more so it has no cure. According to the doctors she visited, the child developed the disease because of the chemicals found in his head. When the MRI was carried out, the test proved that he had autism disorder.
The mother was first in denial when her son was diagnosed with the disorder and it took her quite some time to come to terms with the news. She had a very hard time adjusting to the child's condition leave alone being hurt and upset. However, she came to understand autism through research and exchanging ideas with other mothers. Some of the characteristics demonstrated by her son include flapping of hands, temper tantrums, movement of the whole body, banging of the head against the wall, biting himself and other people, constant passing of urine on himself, and being very aggressive towards other people. Considering that autism is a spectrum disorder, its symptoms vary from mild to severe. For instance, verbal communication develop slowly, lack of social skills and unresponsive to pain.
According to the mother, symptoms demonstrated by the son include mental retardation, tourette syndrome, observe-compulsive disorder, and keeping strange relationships with events and objects. Treatment of the disorder is done through medication and educational and behavioral interventions. Some of the developmental and consideration suggested by the mother include conducting more behavioral approached aimed at encouraging play with autistic children, predicting of verbal disorder among children with autism disorder, teaching children with the disability play school and conducting more classroom base interventions amongst children with autism.
