Autism is a brain disorder which affects a person’s speech, social interaction and behaviour. A person having this condition experiences the world differently from most other people. A smile, a gentle touch or a friendly gesture does not mean the same to an autistic person. Symptoms of autism include repetitive speech and behaviour, such as repetitive hand flapping, lining toys in a row, stacking blocks up, requesting the same food everyday, wearing the same clothes, being preoccupied with the same television programme or toy and even self-injury such as eye poking or hand biting. An autistic person usually lacks the ability to read or understand other people’s emotions. They also find it difficult to show or feel empathy. However, people with autism are usually gifted in some way with either great mathematical, logical or artistic skill.
Up until recently, many people considered autism a strange, random condition affecting individuals. This perception is
beginning to change based on a number of different studies into the condition.
One study looked at the rates of autism by types of city or community in a number of very different countries. This study showed that cities that are IT hubs have higher rates of autism than cities that have little or no IT industry. The IT hubs that stood out with high rates of autism included Silicon Valley in Northern California in the US, Bangalore in Southern India, Silicon Glen in Scotland and Silicon Fen around the University of Cambridge in the UK. The same trend showed up in IT hubs and non-hubs in European countries like the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Poland.
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