People with ASD’s (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) see the world in a very different way to us the signals in there brain seem to be jumbled and confused. It seems for many there sensory perception is different, things that we take for granted are hard for them to understand. For example a person’s face to us is a way of telling allot about someone, understanding the situation your in, reading a person’s emotions anger, happiness and sadness. People with ASD’s find it hard to read peoples faces and emotions so don’t always understand how someone is feeling which also impacts on there social skills.
Other examples are heightened sound sensitivity, many people with ASD’s have a very high sensitivity to sound so something as simple as a sneeze or a cough can almost be intolerable to them.
People with ASD’s are very vulnerable people and rely on us as there support to almost be that part of them that can’t unravel these mixed messages in there head.
Quite often you will here there disability described as the Triad of Impairments which are the bellow: