Children and humor: how can you reach your child with a laugh

Neuroatypical children can enjoy a good laugh too.

Playing with our children, approaching them, and laughing with them helps us to strengthen the parent-child relationship and discover aspects that we would never have imagined. Practicing laughter therapy is a good way to communicate, it’s also simple and has many benefits.

When we perform a session of laughter therapy, we experience a strong dose of endorphins that relax the muscles and even help us to leave shyness behind.

Endorphins

Endorphins are substances that our body produces naturally and that provides a well-being sensation. The production of endorphins isn’t continuous, you have to stimulate it; so doing a couple of laugh therapy sessions is a good idea.

Lately, with these busy lifestyles, we forget to share time with the family, to make time to play with them. Sometimes we should disconnect our children from the internet, from those electronic games, and from television; we should encourage them to spend more time with the family, to talk, to play games, to communicate.

Organize a family laugh therapy session

Invite grandparents, uncles, cousins. The more participants, more fun!

-Start making a nice invitation created by yourself.

-Condition any room in the house, clear of any objects, a free area.

-Use comfortable, light clothes, in which you can be able to jump to the ground freely and have the time of your life no worrying about spoiling it.

Laughter therapy session

"Crazy face, crazy laugh."

Play games like inventing a character and change each participant’s personality. Introduce yourself and then start with the game round.

Everyone can be placed in a circle, and the one who starts the game shows to the one on his right the craziest face that comes to mind, and this one next door and so on. One by one will make your face crazier and, believe us, the laughter is assured.

Benefits

At the end of the session of laughter therapy, we will be seized by an enormous sense of peace, affection, and relaxation in our family. Adults are children once again, and the kids show themselves as they are, without any embarrassment. The results are amazing.

The power of laughter therapy can achieve wonders for these children.

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Boys and Girls: The Difference between Them

And, inversely, girls have ways of showing their autism that is unique to their sex.

When the word autism is mentioned, the image that comes to mind is an introverted child with difficulty communicating. Indeed, the condition is four times more common in boys than in girls, but experts are evaluating in more detail how the disorder affects the two genders differently.

The way in which autism affects females and males differently has become a subject of great debate in the area and could lead to new techniques to diagnose and treat the condition.

Is really important to understand how autism occurs differently between genders.

Differences

-In general, girls with ASD have a more significant learning disability and more problems with schooling than boys.

-Many girls with ASD have better social skills than comparable boys which makes it even more possible for them not to be diagnosed.

-Both boys and girls with ASD, usually have an obsessive subject, a recurring interest but girls tend to look at things like drawings, ponies, dolls, princesses, which are very common passions among neurotypical girls. Boys, on the other hand, tend to focus on less usual activities such as putting building blocks in line or playing with sand, things that need more focusing. The result is that although parents express their concerns, some doctors may think that, when it comes to girls, this is not a symptom, but taking a normal hobby to an extreme and is not something that should be treated as a possible ASD.

Girls with ASD differ from boys in key symptoms and behaviors, particularly in social interaction. The less recognizable symptoms in girls are leading not only to a delay in diagnosis but to problems in identifying the condition.

The more we know about the differences in ASD among boys and girls, the more we will know about autism and its manifestations.

Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls; no matter what condition they live with.

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Girls with Autism: They Do Exist

Autism is often associated with the male of the species, but it's not always the case.

Currently, autism prevails in males, and official figures indicate that for every four children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, three are boys and only one is a girl. That is why society maintains a myth that autism only occurs in boys.

In this article, we will show you that this may not be true. Keep on reading!

Girls with autism do exist!

Recent studies have found that many of the symptoms that influence girls with autism are in many cases ignored by families and specialists, since they are similar to the behaviors expected of girls because they are so.

Female stereotypes seem to go against the diagnosis of autism. Sometimes symptoms such as extreme shyness, certain obsessions, and fears, extreme sensitivity are traits that although socially strange in a man, are considered appropriate in women and therefore aren’t interpreted as warning signals.

Simon Baron-Cohen, an autism specialist at the University of Cambridge, said:

“We know that people with high functioning autism have two basic problems: communication and socialization. However, we have discovered that in girls studied within this same spectrum, the symptoms are different, women tend to have an obsessive interest that is centered around people and relationships, but since these behaviors are expected of a girl, many times they are overlooked.”

Nowadays, in the scientific community is considered a mistake to have thought that the disorder of autism is the same in boys than in girls. And this has opened an exciting debate that is putting autism on girls in the spotlight.

It seems that girls may have more skills to camouflage their difficulties, and therefore their difficulties may be more unnoticed than those of boys. They learn to observe others and imitate their social behaviors, even if they don’t understand them and seem not to be spontaneous, they want to achieve social acceptance of the group. Girls with autism usually have a more significant interest in interacting with other children, especially younger ones, something that doesn’t typically occur in boys with ASD so frequently.

All this has led the scientific community to think that there may be more girls with ASD than those who are diagnosed, or that girls are diagnosed later than boys.

Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder with or without associated hyperactivity is also being produced in girls and teens, who actually have features of ASD, but who haven’t been adequately detected and diagnosed.

We join the campaign and ask for more research on autism in girls.

Girls often live their lives not knowing they are within the spectrum, the reason of this lies on their behavior.

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