The article that I chose to write about has to deal with Autism. "Autism is a disorder characterized by severe difficulties in social interaction and communication, and with unusual behaviors"(Autism 1). This article gives you a better understanding of what an autistic person is like. There are definitions written in this paper so people can become more knowledgeable of this disorder. Autism is a disorder that has no known cause or cure.
Autism is a disorder that use to be thought of as being rare. Now autism is very common. The rates of people born perfectly normal and than all of a sudden becoming autistic have increased also. "Early epidemiology studies of autism reported rates of two to five cases per 10000 children"(Autism 2). However, since the early 1990's, the rate of autism have increased enormously throughout the world, the rates have increased to as high as sixty children per ten thousand births. Researchers can't seem to find the reasoning of why the rates have......
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