How would you feel in a situation when the sound of fan rooms felt like an electric saw in your head, or the normal lights felt bright enough to split one’s head or someone speaking in front of you seems like a distant roar that means nothing, which means one’s body is not able to comprehend when situations begin or end, or extreme difficulty in sitting still or sitting down or concentrating. Many a times the pen one might hold may seem like broken glass, or the paper one may seek to write on seem blinding or the ordinary odours of life seem repugnant and obnoxious. It would seem an extremely difficult venture to undertake the task of learning, if one is bothered with just one such sensory nightmare, also known as autism. Children from birth to the ages of six have been diagnosed with this Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a neurological development disorder for which there is no cure, with no two people suffering from this disease are exactly alike. But early intervention and other  [...]