If you are like most people, you make commitments to others all the time. Question is - how often do you keep your promise? It is impossible to follow through on every single one you make in life, but how many you break and how you handle it when you do is key to understanding yourself.
Autism has often been described as a âneurological disorder.â This description implies that it is centrally and primarily related to issues in the nervous system, particularly the brain.
While autism is highly heritable, researchers suspect both environmental and genetic factors as causes. In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects. Controversies surround other proposed environmental causes; for example, the vaccine hypotheses have been disproven.iagnosis is based on behavior, not cause or mechanism. Under the DSM-5, autism is characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction across multiple contexts, as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.