The definition of autism from the Oxford Dictionary is “a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts.”
Autism is a condition that affects people from engaging in effective communication. My brother’s condition of autism let me have a good understanding of the difficulties experienced by autistic individuals in conveying their message across to others.
Autistic individuals are not the only ones suffering; the people around them do suffer as well. It hurts me very much to see my brother getting frustrated with my mother when he is unable to bring the message across to the rest of the family because I know not much can be done to resolve this case of miscommunication.
From my brother’s condition, I saw a case with a complete absence of effective communication and truly understand the importance of it to not only me, but also everyone in this world.
Currently in my final semester of my university life, I am about to embark on a job search very soon. Stepping out into the working society where communicating effectively with people is essential to career success made me take up this module as a self-improvement course, hoping to excel in communication or at least grasp the basics of it. So here I am, writing my first blog post for this module! (:
