Autistic child faces more complicated and Weight Adolescence

Jakarta, Adolescence is a transitional period between the children become parents. At this time, adolescents often face conflicts, both within oneself conflicts or conflicts with the environment such as parents, schools and friends.

In children with autism, conflicts encountered during adolescence can be more complicated because it has a barrier in communicating feelings and thoughts.

Found many cases of children with autism who had received therapy during childhood and can be calm and then turned into a rebellious when they entered adolescence.

Some of the causes is due to start liking the opposite sex, entering puberty and sex drive but does not appear to know how to communicate or deal with it.

Not only that, children with autism in schools also often shunned by their friends but they also want to be invited to play together.

In fact, many children with autism are being bullied by his school friends. These conditions make vulnerable autistic teenager suffering from depression.

"Adolescence has always had a problem. However, if the parent and the child was awake a good communication early on, usually experienced by children with autism disorder as a teenager not too worried," said Dr. Adriana S. Giananjar, MS, psychologist and founder of khsuus school children with autism 'Mandiga' and professor of psychology at the University of Indonesia in a ceremony held Cares for Autism London School of Public Relation in Taman Menteng, Jakarta, Wednesday (9/05/2012).

As a teenager, much has changed in the child with autism. Cognitive development was also developed and already has a good ability to think logically.

But one thing has not changed is the egocentric, children with autism is to see things from the viewpoint of himself. When children with autism have anxiety and can not express it, then it tends to become angry, sad and frustrated.

According to Dr. Adriana who also have autistic children, the symptoms are normal and are often found. However, this can be a problem if the intensity is excessive.

To overcome this, parents must have good communication with children. Parents should be alert to physical and mental changes in children and more proactively understand the needs of their children.

"At this stage, children with autism often fickle mood. Basically they are in a period of soul-searching and sometimes have idol. If the relationship with both parents, often children with autism were then idolized father or mother, and this very nice, "said Dr. Adriana.

Another thing to consider as a teenager with autism is their sensitivity increased toward teenagers and usually started like daydreaming.

As a result, he could suddenly be happy and moments later turned into sadness. Actually the problem is not from the outside, but from the children themselves.

If this meeting, parents should let their own children and not be bothered with all sorts of questions for children with autism are very sensitive to noise and interference from outside.