Friday, April 29, 2011

Autism - a ray of hope




Carly: "I am autistic but that is not who I am. Take time to know me, before you judge me."

Carly, why do autistic kids cover their ears, flap their hands, hum or rock (a lot)?

Carly: It's a way for us to drown out all sensory inputs that overload us all at once. We create output to block out input....I take over thousands of a person's face when I look at them. That's why we have a hard time looking at people.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Carly,

I just thought you would like to know not everyone will judge you.

I certainly don't. I would take time to understand you rather than judge you and I am just an average man.

Best of luck and I hope you have a happy life.

Sending you love and best wishes for your journey.