Find Out How A Child With Autism Sees The World
It’s not easy to imagine how other people see or feel the world. It is even more complicated to imagine how a child with autism sees the world, how he perceives the world, how things feel, what he thinks when things around him happen.
It’s not simple to put yourself in other people’s shoes, but you can try and do it. It is important to know how a child with autism sees the world in order to understand it a little better.
The stimuli and autism
Children with autism face many daily obstacles, not only in their lives, but in the society in which they live. They don’t know how to understand how they feel or how they see the world around them.
The most common situation for you can be a very stressful and conflicting situation for a child with autism, such as going to a mall or entering stores with a high flow of people.
People with autism are very sensitive to all the stimuli they receive from the environment around them. When they receive too much sensory input, they can feel disoriented, overwhelmed, and very stressed. It is necessary to understand that when a child with autism has a tantrum, it is always because of something, it is not because he likes to draw attention, it is because something that happened made him anxious, until he reached his limit.
A video that will make you understand better
The campaign that the National Autistic Society has launched has a very clear slogan: ‘I’m not a spoiled child, I have autism’ is one of the phrases within the slogan for ‘Too much information’.
It is a British organization that wants to start helping people to empathize with people who have autism, by showing explicitly how they perceive the world.
When a child with autism is overstimulated, he can collapse. Therefore, this organization wants to make society begin to understand how children and people with autism see the world, to prevent other people from asking them to leave a public place because of how they behave because of autism. Many people with autism and their families feel that society does not understand and isolates them.
An autism child’s brain ‘connects’ differently and it may seem like everything is too chaotic for them. They feel as if their senses are acting at the same time to be able to understand all the information they receive from the outside, information that they feel is too chaotic and as if it causes a great deal of discomfort internally.
That’s why the time has come for society to start becoming aware of how people with autism see the world, in order to stop isolating them, so that they finally understand what it means for them to go to a place full of people, noise, lights, smells, colors…
All stimuli are felt intensely. In the video of just 1 minute and 24 seconds that we share below, you will be able to understand this reality little known by people in general.
In addition, it is also necessary to learn some strategies to know how to react when an autistic child starts to show ‘inappropriate’ behavior because of so much stimulation.
It is necessary for society to be aware that children with autism are also part of us and that it is everyone’s job to help them feel better. Some strategies are:
- Give them time to process the information
- Don’t be around her when she has an attack and don’t judge the child or her family
- Allow a space of protection and silence for her to calm down
- Asking if the family needs any help
- Think: what would you like them to do if you were about to explode?
- Empathize with the autistic child rather than criticizing the situation.
As stated at the end of the video: ‘I’m not a bad child, I’m autistic and I get a lot of information’. Be sure to watch the video below, and once you’re done, reflect not only on what the video makes you feel, but also on what an autistic child feels when he or she needs to go through this type of situation on a daily basis, whatever the reason. .
