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Muslim Americans Lack Autism Awareness Are Muslim communities doing enough to raise awareness about autism? BY AYA KHALIL When Tunde Brazlik would pick up her daughter from Sunday Islamic school, people would tell her to leave her son, Amin, who is autistic, outside before entering the school. Brazlik stopped taking her daughter to the school. She discovered her now 10-year-old son had Autism Spectrum Disorder, a brain development disorder, when he was 14 months. “The Muslim community did not want to deal with him at any point of time,” said Brazlik, a nurse and special education teacher, adding that her main support system was people of the other faiths through whom she found lots of help and encouragement. “Many times Muslims looked down on me and my kids, and I was subje...