– Do you think there is a lot of ignorance on the subject?
Yes, if the door does not touch you, you have no way of knowing. Maybe now there is much more information. But, for example, with the knowledge that I have acquired, I recently realize how many people I have known that had some characteristics of Asperger’s syndrome. Before it was very difficult to have the diagnosis of autism. Now it is known that of every 160 children, one has autism, and of those cases, 60% are men. Another myth is that vaccines can cause autism, but that’s a lie. Vasco has a twin whom we vaccinate just like him and she has absolutely nothing. But people do not know, I never knew. What’s more, another family member, who is over thirty years old, has been diagnosed with asperger. Just like there are lefties, there are people with this syndrome. It’s a different connection in the brain.
– It was not easy to detect the asperger in Vasco?
It was a long process. When he was two years old, the blender bothered him a lot, then he could not look into the eyes for a sensory matter. What little he spoke stopped doing it. At that time, the nest psychologist told us to make a discard of autism, but it came out negative, because it was very mild. We did language therapy, occupational therapy and sensory integration, psychomotor. As the needs appeared, we attended to it. In my heart I knew there was something, but I did not know what. Until at six he began to make a kind of flutter with his hands and that was what gave the certainty to the specialists. You have to be very careful to diagnose when it is a mild case.
Source: Peru21
