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Quarantine Generates Anxiety and Anger in Autistic Children

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Theo, three years old, is more hyperactive. Raphael, 13, more irritable. Lucas, 18, more reclusive. Each one reacted differently, but they all had trouble accepting the change in routine with the start of quarantine at the home of Liliane Senhorini, 42.

The mother of the three, all diagnosed with autism, has spent her days concerned ever since the measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic were enforced, as have many other families with children and adolescents with disorders or intellectual disabilities.

Even with the distance monitoring of professionals and the efforts to maintain daily activities, the interruption . . .

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