The purpose of this story will enlighten you about a birth defect called autism. Autism, the hidden birth defect, has become a worldwide phenomenon it's been around for many years but undetected. Today one out of every ten thousand children born has been diagnosed to have autism or autistic like characteristics. Through clinical research doctors now have a better understanding as to what this developmental disability has done and the long term affects on these children as they develop much slower than normal children in their own age group. To understand the complexity of birth defects could become a living nightmare. It's two-fold because it consist of many different kinds for instance there's down syndrome called Trisomy 21, cerebral palsy, spinal bifida and cleft palate just to name a few. With each of these birth defects they all have their own physical traits in appearance, which makes their disability more noticeable. Now on the other hand autistic children who also have a disability but for some unexplained reason many will look quite normal, yet in fact they too have a developmental disability. In many cases autistic children appear to be normal with no physical defects, that's why this makes autistic children so hard to distinguish, what separate them from normal children, it's their behavior, it's not normal by society's standard.