Autistic adults are scientists, artists, educators, musicians and even public speakers. But making the transition from grade school to college or career is especially complex for young adults on the spectrum. Explore resources, options, ideas, tools and more to make the process easier, pleasanter, and more successful.

Autism:

It is a multifaceted expansion disorder that affects the brain’s normal social development and communication skills. Autism which is not diagnosed at early stage and it sustains at the age of 13 and above. The common features of autism include the impaired verbal and non-verbal communication, impaired social interactions, problems processing information from the senses and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior.

Most of the parents of autistic children imagined that something is wrong by the time the child was 18 months and seeks for help at the time of 2.

1. Covers a Spectrum

Autism spectrum disorders vary from mild to severe. Some adults with autism are functioning members of society, with a house, a job, and everything that goes with it. Other autistic adults may require assistance from the government and other sources to get by day to day. Adult autism varies from person to person, and autism changes over time. This means that a person's autism and its severity are capable of changing over time.

2. Not Always Easy to Spot

Autism is difficult to spot. While the majority of people can pick out a severely autistic person--think the film Rain Man, with Dustin Hoffman--milder cases are more subtle. Many adults with autism went through years of therapy to deal with their issues, and they learned coping mechanisms. The less you're able to tell if an adult has autism or not, the better the past therapy worked. People with autism and related disorders have no physical characteristics, and there is no blood test to identify them. A doctor who specializes in developmental problems diagnoses it or a psychologist based on behaviors they exhibit at a young age.

3. It Starts Before Age Three

One of autism's diagnostic criteria is the appearance of symptoms prior to 3 years of age. These symptoms include social problems, peer relationship problems, and repetitive behaviors called self-stimulatory--stims. While a few types of autism such as Asperger's Syndrome show up later, it is always a childhood-onset disease. Adults can't wake up one day and be autistic. It's something they have endured most of their life.

4. Common Characteristics Abound

It's impossible to perfectly describe or categorize every autistic person. However, several common characteristics affect autistic individuals. Social impairment, ranging from awkwardness to complete introversion, is extremely common. Difficulty in reading nonverbal cues such as body language and facial expressions are also symptoms of autism.

5. Don't Judge

It is very difficult to live with autism, regardless of what level the person functions at. Autistic people know they are socially inept, and are aware when people make comments about them. ASD adults are notorious for reading social cues wrong, and many times they come off as being rude or mean. Keep their difficulties in mind before assuming they intentionally meant harm. It is often likely that they just didn't understand the situation and how to react appropriately.

Symptoms of Autism:
The autistic people might carry out some repeated movement of body, shows unusual attachments to objects or distress when routines are changed. Autism indications involve a quantity of varying behavior expressions. In addition to those renowned above, autism may be present if the person is able to completely extricate from the world. The person with autism may walk on his or her toes. The individuals may also get practice of susceptibilities in the sense of hearing, touch, taste or smell. Such autistic people will repudiate to be dressed itchy clothes and happen to unduly distressed if forced to wear for the reason of their sensitive skins. Some of the symptoms are predicted in varying degrees,

Communications:
Deficiency in of submitting to express others' awareness to objects (it will happen in the first 14 months of the life).
They won’t adjust the sight of fixing their mind to look at the objects as others looking at.
Cannot initiate or keep going on a social discussion.
Committed to memorize the passages or repeats words such as viable.
Develops language slowly or not at all.
Does not pass on to self suitably words such as you am hungry, the child means for I am hungry.
The child will use nonsense rhymes.
Gesticulation instead for general word communication.
Interaction between the social people.
There will be a lack of understanding.
They won’t keep friendship.
Spends lots of time alone instead of with a group.
They won’ respond to eye contacts or smiles of others.
The children will treat others as only objects.
They doesn’t show interests in interactive games.
 
Response to sensory information:
The child will have heightened or low senses of sight, smelling, touching, hearing, taste.
Seems to have a low or heightened response to the pain.
May pull out from objective contacts for the reason that they will have  over stimulating or overwhelming.
Does not frighten at thunderous noises or  may find average sound as hurting and hold hands over ears.
Licks the objects, surfaces or the faces.
Play:
Shows modest pretend or ingenious play.
Doesn't impersonate the proceedings of others.
Have a preference on introverted or ritualistic play.

Behaviors:
Have only a short concentration span of behaving with others.
Uses monotonous body activities.
Shows well-built demands for resemblance with others.
"Acts up" with passionate irritability.
Has very contracted interests.
Make obvious perseveration (having difficulties on a single topic or task).
Shows violent behaviors to others or self hurting.
The child may be overactive or very passive.