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PDD Autism - Symptoms of Asperger's and Rett's Syndromes

Do you know that there are specific symptoms of autism spectrum disorder? Of course there are and this article gives you hints on what their specific symptoms are. You see, for example, when the patient suffers from difficulties in having social relationships with other people, strange kinds of behavior patterns, obvious concentration on certain details of objects, as well as a kind of heightened or increased ability to expertly memorize, without the sorts of communication problems of the autism, the patient is obviously suffering from Asperger's. When your patient has perhaps one or two other basic autism symptoms without enough for the autism diagnosis, what they have is Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). Rett syndrome is a disease like autism, but one that affects only girls. The patient gets a lot of funny hand movements, loss of language and motor skills, and seizures in addition to the classic autism symptoms. But this i...

Symptoms of Autism and Different Autistic Spectrum Disorders

The symptoms of autism typically include - lack of eye contact, lack of interest in objects or things or even people, lack of communication skills, disinterest in relationships and social interaction, restricted interests in activities and play, mental retardation in several cases, and occasional savant skills. Autism is a disorder that affects the social, emotional, and behavioral development of children, marked by serious difficulties in interacting and communicating with other people; and with other symptoms like constantly repeating certain actions or behaviors, and having intense interests restricted to only particular things or topics. However, autism is one of a range of similar diseases that constitute the autism spectrum disorders. They are referred to, professionally, as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs), and they are about five in number, autism or classic autistic disorder being one of them. The others are Rett's syndrome, Pervasive Develop...