Autism Awareness: Key Reflections and Recommendations

This reflective article is aimed at educating social inmates towards autistic children as well as their parents. For data collection, the study has used document analysis and unstructured interview as main data gathering tool. As for data analysis, the collected data were analyzed using analytic induction. The outcome of this study revealed several striking facts. Two major findings need to be mentioned here. Firstly, 77% of the selected samples showed indifference to the issue of autism and autistic children. Secondly, 55% of the selected parents of autistic children had insurmountable stress firstly because of comparing their children with those children who are autistic; secondly because of comparing their children with those children who are recovering and thirdly because of comparing their children with those children who are not autistic. Given the traumatic state of parents, the study forwards six suggestive measures for society and the parents of autistic children.