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Know Your Spectrum

Call no.: : 616.89166200835 MON
Author: : Finn Monahan
Contributor: : Safwan Hanif Bin Osman
Summary: While the spectrum of autism had always been viewed from external perception, this book delved deeper into the spectrum from the perception of the autistic themselves. Executive functioning includes decision making skills, organizational skills and planning skills where an autistic person find it hard to prioritize important tasks. An autistic person can have sensory sensitivities, sensory integration, and sensory synaesthesia as they could be under-sensitive or over-sensitive for different triggering stimuli such as loud noises and fluorescent lights. Autism process information differently with the noises, words, images, and actions where an autistic person may be have processing shutdown and delayed processing. Jokes and sarcasms tend to have an underlying meaning behind them but to an autistic person may take it literally and ask for help to better understand the meaning of the words. Social communication difficulties will arise when an autistic person experience inconsistency in speaking ability, being perceived as unfriendly and rude, and unable to present themselves socially. This social interactions will trigger shutdowns (temporary, total, or partial) or meltdowns. An autistic person may find balance in self-regulation, and committing to routines and personal interests.