What is Autism? What Causes Autism?

Autism is known as a complex developmental disability. Experts believe that Autism presents itself during the first three years of a person's life. The condition is the result of a neurological disorder that has an effect on normal brain function, affecting development of the person's communication and social interaction skills. People with autism have issues with non-verbal communication, a wide range of social interactions, and activities that include an element of play and/or banter.

Learning may be unpredictable

How quickly a child with autism learns things can be unpredictable. They may learn something much faster than other children, such as how to read long words, only to forget them completely later on. They may learn how to do something the hard way before they learn how to do it the easy way.

Autism is a wide-spectrum disorder

Autism (or ASD) is a wide-spectrum disorder. This means that no two people with autism will have exactly the same symptoms. As well as experiencing varying combinations of symptoms, some people will have mild symptoms while others will have severe ones. Below is a list of the most commonly found characteristics identified among people with an ASD.
What Are the Symptoms of Autism? Symptoms of autism typically appear before a child is 3 years old and last throughout life. Children with autism can display a wide range of symptoms, which can vary in severity from mild to disabling. General symptoms that may be present to some degree in a child with autism include: Difficulty with verbal communication, including problems using and understanding language Inability to participate in a conversation, even when the child has the ability to speak Difficulty with non-verbal communication, such as gestures and facial expressions Difficulty with social interaction, including relating to people and to his or her surroundings Difficulty making friends and preferring to play alone Unusual ways of playing with toys and other objects, such as only lining them up a certain way Difficulty adjusting to changes in routine or familiar surroundings, or an unreasonable insistence on following routines in detail Repetitive body movements, or patterns of behavior, such as hand flapping, spinning, and head banging Preoccupation with unusual objects or parts of objects People with a form of autism, called savantism, have exceptional skills in specific areas such as music, art, and numbers. People with savantism are able to perform these skills without lessons or practice.

What Are the Warning Signs That a Child may Have Autism? Babies develop at their own pace, some more quickly than others. However, you should consider an evaluation for autism if any of the following apply: Your child does not babble or coo by 12 months of age Your child does not gesture, such as point or wave, by 12 months of age Your child does not say single words by 16 months Your child does not say two-word phrases on his or her own (rather than just repeating what someone else says) by 24 months Your child has lost any language or social skills (at any age) Does not establish or maintain eye contact Does not make facial expressions or respond to your facial expressions What Causes Autism? The exact cause of autism is not known, but research has pointed to several possible factors, including genetics (heredity), certain types of infections, and problems occurring at birth. Recent studies strongly suggest that some people have a genetic predisposition to autism, meaning that a susceptibility to develop the condition may be passed on from parents to children. Researchers are looking for clues about which genes contribute to this increased vulnerability. In some children, environmental factors may also play a role. Studies of people with autism have found abnormalities in several regions of the brain, which suggest that autism results from a disruption of early brain development while still developing in the mother's womb. Other autism theories suggest: The body's immune system may inappropriately produce antibodies that attack the brains of children, causing autism. Abnormalities in brain structures cause autistic behavior. Children with autism have abnormal timing of the growth of their brains. Early in childhood, the brains of autistic children grow faster and larger than those of normal children. Later, when normal children's brains get bigger and better organized, autistic kids' brains grow more slowly. Astrological pointers
Medically, the Ascendant represents the body or physical vehicle that you came into at birth - its constitutional nature and temperament, structure and appearance, and weak spots or vulnerabilities. It also represents the nature and circumstances of your birth, incarnation or physical embodiment. Modern astrology gives the Ascendant an essential affinity or resonance with the sign Aries and its ruler Mars, since it's the cusp of the First House. And so, the Ascendant rules the body and its physical expression in general, and the head in particular. 1. Ascendant /lord and mars.( already explained above) 2. Mercury The nervous system, speech indicator, bodys immune system 3. Saturn- Cold and wasting ,responsible for toxic/waste removals, chronic disease significator. 4. Moon- Significator of mind ,mother,body fluids etc. moon will give diseases related to

lungs, nervous disorders, sulkiness, depression, weak eyesight, emotional disorders. Bad and horror dreams have been noticed when there is malefic effect on moon.
5. Rahu Poisions,pollutants , environmental factors responsible for unknown diseases.

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Sun+ mer combination is very prominent in most of the nervous disorder diseases. Uranus + Neptune as per western astrology. Second lord , mercury or Jupiter in trik bhavas ,afflicted etc. Condition of diseases lord of 6th in 2nd,6th,8th ,10th ,12th or making a connection with lord of ascendant by aspect or being placed in ascendant. Gemini, virgo and pisces- Gemini indicatornerves and nervous system . Virgo The natural disease indicator of kaal pursha and pisces as natural sign for hospitalization and inactivity.

System Skeletal

Planet Sun

Major Organs and Structures Bones, cartilage, joints and ligaments that hold them together. Muscles: (i) skeletal or voluntary (with bones and tendons is responsible for all forms of conscious movement ), (ii) smooth muscles responsible for involuntary movement of internal organs, (iii) cardiac muscles, the bulk of the heart. Brain and sense organs (eyes, ears, taste buds, smell and touch receptors), nerves and spinal cord. Control and influence the bodys chemistry and metabolic processes. Hormone producing glands: pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, pancreas, thymus, testes/ovaries. Lungs, bronchi (tubes to lungs), trachea(windpipe), mouth, larynx, nose, diaphragm. Heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, blood. Structures involving the circulation of lymph and the bodys defense against disease, including lymph nodes, lymph vessels, spleen, tonsils, adenoids, thymus. Mouth, teeth, tongue, salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, liver, gall-bladder, pancreas. Male: testes, penis, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, urethra. Female: ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vagina, vulva. Male and female sex hormones relates to sexual growth and function (menstruation in females).

Muscular Nervous

Saturn Mars

Endocrine Respiratory Cardio- vascular

Venus Mercury Sun

Lymph-vascular Digestive

Mercury Jupiter

Reproductive s Excretory

Venus Saturn

Organs and glands involved in the removal of waste matter from the body: sweat glands, large intestines, urinary system (kidneys, urethras, bladder, urethra).

Lets take some example charts-

8th house and Taurus sign has mars and venus ,mars is lord of 2nd and 7th a marak. ,Venus is lord of 1st and 8th,Jupiter is super malefic( functional) being lord of 3 rd and 6th Saturn as yogakarak is debilated in 7th . Mercury the significator of nerves and bodys ability to fight back is combust and aspected by Saturn (debilated). Saturn and moon conjunct in 7th sign Aries indicate troubled mind and it also gives propensity to be aloof and loner. Sun+ mercury combination is usually very prominent in all diseases related to nervous disorders specifically true if mercury is combust or the combination is badly placed, aspected or afflicted. Coming to nakshatra of moon and Saturn are in its ashwani indicating head, Cerebral Hemisphere and diseases it generates are Congestion in brain, Thrombosis, Epilepsy, Fainting, Head injury, strokes, spasm, coma, malaria, trance, small pox, headache, neuralgia, cerebral hemorrhage. Venus the lagna lord is in kritika indicating Head, Eyes, Brain, Vision, 2nd, 3rd, 4th qtrs: Face, Neck, Larynx, Tonsils, Lower Jaw. Cerebral Meningitis, Carbuncle Sharp Fever, Malaria, Plague, Small Pox, Cuts, Wounds, Brain Fever, Injury, Accidents, Explosions, Fire, Accident. Fourth house has Uranus+ Neptune combination thought to be triggers of autism by western astrologers. Lastly we see that Rahu ketu form a Kaal sarp dosh here.Gulika is in 9th house with sun and mercury. Lord of second is conjunct lord of lagna and 8th . Indicating speech problems.

Chart number2- Once again Sun conjunct mercury and venus in Aries, here sun is lagna lord in ashwani nakshatra and in aries the problem area again the brain/nervous disorder. Moon is in kritika nakshatra again the specific area .Saturn as lord of sixth retrograde in virgo ( Natural disease significator sign) and Saturn is natural significator of diseases so it makes a connection. Saturn by being retrograde aspects moon and Jupiter while debilated mars also aspects Jupiter from 12th. Lagna is in paapkartari with malefic on both sides.Mandi and gulika are also in aries and in nakshatras kritikaand ashwani.Lord of 2nd is again with ascendant lord .Mercury is second lord with ascendant lord sun and 3rd and 10th lord venus. The common pointsAries sign, nakshatra Ashwini and kritika,Sun+ mer combination ,rahu and ketu in 5th and 11th axis, Saturns aspect on moon. Jupiter and venus afflicted.

Lagna lord mercury is conjunct second lord venus in 10th aspected by mars the planet placed in maran karaka sthaan in 7th it also aspects the lagna the second and lord of 5th and 6th Saturn . Saturn also aspects lagna and it also makes a relation with moon in12th by being its dispositor .Jupiter is again afflicted and aspected by malefics.