A few months back I came to know that one of colleauge's son is suffering from Autism. Well I became sad to learn about this. I thought of asking him how is preparing to cope with it but I dared not. I thought it might harm his feelings or I should not prick his feelings.
Afterwards I thought again ,Why didn't I ask? I should have asked , I am a friend of him and I know how much mental tension he would be in along with his wife. Well if I had talked to him, he might have felt a little better though it is he who have to live his life with his family and Autistic son , and not only lead a life but lead a much secured life.
Why I failed to ask? It creeps me still today. Is is our society which stopped me from asking him or is it my conscience? Why I said society is becoz still today we stay in a society however HIG they are these issues are not taken the right way. Any neuro disease or related disease like depression etc are not considered normal. People start behaving oddly or many start avoiding too.
Lets not go into any other issues now and lets talk about Autism itself. Almost a year back there was a daily soap in Zee Tv which dealt with an Autistic Child. Why is it so? Why our society is still unfriendly to these? Is it that unless the issue is borne by someone , one wont understand.
Why are Autistics still thought as unfriendly. Why people dont understand that it is the problem and we should try to understand them more instead of avoiding them. Why dont we understand that this is a problem with which these challenged people will have to live life throughout.
What WE can do is understand them, increase our knowledge in these (who knows a child with autism may come to our life too, what would we do in that case, will we be able to avoid ? NO is the answer I am sure)
Then why reciprocate the same to other families too?????
We can call ourselves a SOCIETY when we will learn to deal with all these ups and downs of life and make friends with these people who donot know a normal life until taught specially.
I am sure many of us know that these autistics are born with huge intelligence or a special power. There are many who have published thesis at a very young age. The best example is Temple Grandin. There is a movie in her name. I happened to see it just a few days back. This movie shows us and helps us to learn that we can bring changes in these lives by becming a bit more caring and by standing by these people to help them to WIN in life.