Ido in Autismland. Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison. by Ido Kedar

Author:Ido Kedar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: education, psychology, health, autobiography, parenting, memoirs, communication, teenage, disabilities, neuropsychology
Publisher: Ido Kedar

Autism is a Deep Pit

April 2009

I saw an autistic boy today who was so locked in his inner world. It is hard to see and to remember that. His helper tried hard to engage him but he was lost in his sensory world and tuned her out. She tried to help and he resisted her. Yet I think he is smart.

Autism is like a deep pit filled with sand that is blocking your way out. You see that people are trying to help but it is not easy to move in the sand. If you try, you may reverse the sand and sink deeper. If you do nothing, you are sad inside. If you disappear in your senses you escape the rotten frustration so it’s like a drug. It’s a high in a way of lights and colors. Then it’s even harder to reach the autistic kid because he is in a pit, in sand that sinks, and he is watching a laser light show in his head. It’s lonely in the pit, even with loving people nearby. This boy was impossible to connect to and I see how frustrating it is for families in this situation. He is like a ghost because he is there, but not there. Yet he is internally there, hearing, seeing and feeling, even though he is so remote. It’s a long path to connecting to others. He has a long journey because he is lost in his own world. Stims dominate his life so he is not relating to people well.

What to do for him? He needs communication, I’m sure, not just counting numbers or repeating words which is what they kept trying to do with him. He needs to get out and do things that engage his mind and body. He needs rules. He was invasive and bratty. It reminds me to work more on this too. He isn’t lost if he is shown how to climb out of the pit to a life that is external too because there are people who love him who want to know the boy inside, and not just the behaviors outside.

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