People with autism always have an interest that is what they think about and relate every scenario to. In the netflix show Atypical the main character is autistic and he is very interested in penguins and antártica. When he confronts situations in his everyday life he compares it to a penguin it relaxes him and helps him better understand the situation and what he should do. When he decided he was ready to start dating he compared himself to the penguin male and how they find a partner. He saw how penguins get attention from the female penguins and assert their dominance and so he did the same he changed his appearance. He even made desserts for the person he was trying to make his partner. He wasn’t doing it because of how he felt he did it because it was what penguins did when they are ready to mate.As you can see penguins take a big part in his life and is very important to him. I see this as a comfort zone for him.

 

 In this show, you get to see how and why he makes his every move. This autistic kid being the main character helped understand what might be going on inside an autistic person’s mind. When it comes to the interest we just don’t see that he likes penguins we see that he relates and helps him to cooperate with his everyday life. It shows how he is always thinking about it and it calms him down.

 

     Aside from having trouble with social interaction people with autism have different ways of communicating. In this article hannah a kid with autism she communicates by typing. “ a girl though to be incapable to read of write wrote i love mom” In this case the specialist were worried this girl couldn’t communicate but what they found out was that she can just in a different way. This girl was stocked up on information. Later on she was asked, “ Do you have a photographic memory? Hannah typed yes”. These people have abilities we just can see it’s all inside their minds. How they think and process information like hannah she has a photographic memory. Do most autistic people have a photographic memory? I would like to know. Hannah was given a worksheet with 30 math problems and got all 30 right in an instance. This shows how she remembers everything she sees.The reason for this is that “ autistic children tend to have the brain of a 13 year old.” This shows how quick they are in tune with the world already full of knowledge with everything they see they analyze it.

 

Now that we are getting deep into the brains of autistic children. Autistic kids brains start growing rapidly since the start. “ they experience rapid expansion since the age of 2” Since the age of 2 they start to analyze and process information. People with autism have high levels of anxiety. “High levels of anxiety seen is as many as 80% of people with autism.” their brains growing so rapidly processing and analyzing can be a reason for this anxiety. “ local areas tend to be over connected” Their brains function differently than ours. This means that when they are thinking their brain doesn’t really work together since it’s over powered.