Autism and Intellectual Disability

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Autism and intellectual disability
Intellectual disability is actually a condition in which individual is not able to adopt
surrounding behaviour and also faces issues related to reasoning and problem solving
capabilities. This restricts their interaction with other people in the form of hesitation. While
Autism is basically a neurobehavioral condition in which individual feel difficulty in social
interaction along with language and communication issues. This issue is very common in
Children and often makes them face difficult in understanding what others think and feel. In this
issue people are not even able to communicate through their facial expressions (Webmd, 2019).
Experience with disable people
I believe that people with disability are uncomfortable in interacting with other people.
Often people start displaying their sorry feeling towards disable people which makes them feel
different from others in the society (Disability, 2019).My first experience was interaction with
my neighbor who was 18 years old and was suffering from Autism. While interacting with my
neighbor I was very conscious while choosing my words. There was a fear in my mind that any
of my words can hurt his sentiments and therefore I used to limit my conversation with him.
While interacting with other disable individuals I found that it is not true because these people
have interacted with me in a very comfortable manner just like other persons. While in case of
intellectual disability, I observed hesitation related to interaction. In few cases, I experienced that
disability has taught them the real face of the world around them, which otherwise was difficult
for them to understand. Sometimes I believe that they are not actually living their life because
they have not expected this kind of things from their life.
Another issue which I experienced was that disable people seem little bit broken down
inside because of mistreatment by the world (MacAonghusa, 2018).One of my friend who is
disable shared that he is afraid that people will make fun of his disability by say such words to
him which can hurt emotionally (Boyce & Wood, 2011). But at the same time, I experienced that
there are some people who thinks positively and have earned their respect because of their
disability. Being disable does not mean that we should feel demotivated towards life, instead of
that we can use it as motivation for our personal aim (Abilities, 2019). I experienced another
positive side of the disable person who shared that people at present especially youngsters see us
beyond our disability by treating us important part of the society.
Personal challenges
I came across various challenges while interaction with disable people in the form of
communication, understanding, negative attitude and emotional challenge. First challenge I faced
while interacting with disable person in my community was his negative attitude towards
outsider due to their bad experiences (Uiaccess, 2019). Another challenge for me was developing
proper conversation because I was not able to communicate with him so easily as compared to