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How to tell if your child has autism

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Dear Dr Ombeva,

My sister’s four year old son was born normally and even breastfed normally. Then later we realised she delayed speaking, and words were not coming out clearly. The problems worsened when he did not want to play with other kids, and most times he sits in the corner of the room and just does nothing, or other times he can take a stick and begins hitting the chair repeatedly non-stop. A friend told us that the child could be having a disease called autism. Do you think that’s true, and what is this disease?

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