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Autism

Just finished a book called 'House Rules' by Jodi Picoult. She is one of my favourite authors.

This novel dealt with the story of a family. The family includes a mother who writes an advice column for a newspaper, a ordinary teenager who gets a thrill from stealing from other households and another son with Aspergers syndrome which is a form of autism.

She wrote the story in the form of each character telling their narrative. And it seems like a difficult life living with an autistic person.

Do you the Muslim community acknowledges people who are autistic etc etc?

Do you believe in disorders such as autism even exist? or like the boy in the book question whether he is just different but does not have a disorder?

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