What are the symptoms of high-functioning autism?

High-functioning autism refers to autistic patients with an IQ of average or higher. Common clinical manifestations are introverted personality, arrogance, and being different from others. They also have many stereotyped behaviors in life, are unwilling to interact with others, and sometimes appear clumsy and unwilling to change.

1. Some children with autism perform almost the same as their peers in academics within a certain period of time, and their IQ measured by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale may be close to normal or normal. Such children generally do not have obvious "language delay" and have better cognitive abilities, which are difficult to recognize in early infancy. If they have no problems or minor problems with learning ability in kindergarten or school and can take care of themselves in general, they will be mistaken for their lack of desire to interact with others, stereotyped and repetitive behaviors, and insistence on sameness as being "introverted", "arrogant, ignorant", or "different".

2. The difference between a high-functioning autistic patient and a normal person is not what he can or cannot do. Often, what he can do may not be possible for a normal person. His real problem is that he does not understand his behavior. For example, a person with a low IQ can know what words will make others unhappy and can understand the feelings of parents and relatives, but a high-functioning autistic patient cannot understand.

3. Although he looks no different from a normal person, and some of him may even be smarter than normal people, such as being a genius in music, mathematics, and painting, only people around him can notice that he is weird and has many special stereotyped behaviors, mainly manifested in his unwillingness to interact with others, lack of family affection, slightly clumsy movements, unwillingness to change, etc. Because autism is a brain and nerve developmental disorder. This developmental disorder causes him to have no concept of social self, making him unable to integrate into society and having social interaction disorders. He cannot understand the meaning of family and friends. His parents are no different from other people to him. He cannot understand the concepts of space and time, etc. The world in his eyes is completely different and unimaginable to normal people.