What are some characteristics of autistic children?
Autistic children have difficulty relating to other people, avoid eye contact, and have various other communication problems. They may look “blank” in their facial expression, not wish to be hugged or touched by others, and do “weird” stuff like spend long periods of time spinning jars or making crinkling sounds. Such children have problems expressing themselves, and may cry when happy or hit at others for no reason. An autistic child may have irrational fears of nonfrightening things. Interestingly, autistic children may display unique splinter skills. These skills are found in a very small number of autistic children and may include such things as incredible number skills or unusually savant artistic skills.
