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If you have a kid that has some of the most ordinary symptoms of someone with Asperger syndrome or autism, you may be wondering if there is a real way to distinguish clinically if your child actually has it, or just exhibits minor signs. If this is a really new subject to you, I am sure it is, you may be concerned about the causes and effects of Asperger syndrome and if there is anything you could do in order to keep your kid from having it get worse.

Firstly let me give you some facts about the history of aspergers syndrome. This situation was originally described as Hands Asperger back in 1944 when a doctor named Hans Asperger started to find people who had clinical characteristics extremely similar to autism. The main difference between what Hans found and what is occurring in our kids these days.

In 1994 The American Psychiatric Association added Aspergers syndrome to it’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. its not, however, listed under autism. Rather, it is listed under a quite wider broad spectrum in the Pervasive Developmental Disorder section of the manual.

There are many common widely spread traits of aspergers syndrome. One of the big ones is social impairment. A lot of kids may show that they have lack of social skills, they do not like to be touched, not even by their parents, they do not thrive in developing friendships like several other children do, and they don’t like any social constructs that are “new”.

In other words, if your child has a program he or she sticks to each morning and you modify something, even something extremely little, they not only notice it, but their moods tend to change astronomically!

Another characteristic that lots of children have is the incapability to speak or relay their messages to you correctly/directly. A lot of kids have bad motor skills, delayed speech, or they even tend to make up their own means of talking. This is one of the extremely worst symptoms, I think.

If your child stops speaking normal English words and makes up his or her own language with grunts or sign language or stops talking at all, this is about the time that everyone, particularly you, realizes that something is wrong. Something is not exchanging properly from a neurological viewpoint.

One of the other big symptoms relates to the sensory experience or sensitivities. Lots of kids with Asperger Syndrome absolutely hate noisy situations or loud things like horns honking, fire alarms going off, parents fighting, etc.
When you think your kid may have Aspergers, do not evaluate him or her on your own. You can assume all you want, but unless the child is seen by a professional, you shouldn’t assume anything! To know a lot more go to, http://parentingaspergerscommunity.com/

The first set of teeth, or milk-teeth as they are called, are twenty in number; they usually appear in pairs, and those of the lower jaw generally precede the corresponding ones of the upper. The first of the milk-teeth is generally cut about the sixth or seventh month, and the last of the set at various periods from the twentieth to the thirtieth months. Thus the whole period occupied by the first dentition may be estimated at from a year and a half to two years. The process varies, however, in different individuals, both as to its whole duration, and as to the periods and order in which the teeth make their appearance. It is unnecessary, however, to add more upon this point.

Their developement is a natural process. It is too frequently, however, rendered a painful and difficult one, by errors in the management of the regimen and health of the infant, previously to the coming of the teeth, and during the process itself.
Thus, chiefly in consequence of injudicious management, it is made the most critical period of childhood. Not that I believe the extent of mortality fairly traceable to it, is by any means so great as has been stated; for it is rated as high as one sixth of all the children who undergo it. Still, no one doubts that first dentition is frequently a period of great danger to the infant. It therefore becomes a very important question to an anxious and affectionate mother, how the dangers and difficulties of teething can in any degree be diminished, or, if possible, altogether prevented. A few hints upon this subject, then, may be useful. I shall consider, first, the management of the infant, when teething is accomplished without difficulty; and, secondly, the management of the infant when it is attended with difficulty.
Management of the infant when teething is without difficulty.

In the child of a healthy constitution, which has been properly, that is, naturally, fed, upon the milk of its mother alone, the symptoms attending teething will be of the mildest kind, and the management of the infant most simple and easy.
Symptoms:- The symptoms of natural dentition (which this may be fairly called) are, an increased flow of saliva, with swelling and heat of the gums, and occasionally flushing of the cheeks. The child frequently thrusts its fingers, or any thing within its grasp, into its mouth. Its thirst is increased, and it takes the breast more frequently, though, from the tender state of the gums, for shorter periods than usual. It is fretful and restless; and sudden fits of crying and occasional starting from sleep, with a slight tendency to vomiting, and even looseness of the bowels, are not uncommon. Many of these symptoms often precede the appearance of the tooth by several weeks, and indicate that what is called “breeding the teeth” is going on. In such cases, the symptoms disappear in a few days, to recur again when the tooth approaches the surface of the gum.