- July 17, 2010, 3:54 am
The illness known as autism affects millions of people around the world. Statistics indicate that 1 in every 500 individuals may show signs or symptoms commonly attributed to autism. These symptoms commonly show during the first two or three years of a persons life. As clearly determined by specialists, it is an illness affecting the neurological development of the brain, thus, giving an autistic individual a hard time in performing certain tasks that most people would normally be able to perform. The ailment entails deviances in the individuals behavior which results to difficulty in communicating and interacting with other people. Tell-tale signs of this condition include persistent movements of the body such as swaying and hand flailing. These people find it hard to give a meaningful