Management of Impression of Autism Family

Abstract

Management of Impression is always done almost by everyone with a variety of reasons, when someone interact with others, in order to get a good impression, positive impressions, impressive impressions, and so forth. Usually, impression management is done to improve social status, in order to gain respect from others, to obtain a certain position, or for political needs and financial benefits. Impression management is not only done orally or writing, but also uses visual symbols (visible) such as action, appearance, or other objects. Impression management that someone does has certain purposes, to cover up events that can undermine his self-esteem. This can be done by autistic children family, to remain privileged in their environment, still regarded as an honorable family, and to remove the stigma from the environment. Impression management by the autism family is more about managing verbal impression, when telling the story of autistic children in their neighborhood to cover the stigma. The various feelings of shame, insecurity and want to cover them sometimes afflicted parents who have children with autism, because it is aware or not sometimes the behavior of "deviant" children with autism is not easily accepted by family and the environment. Families with normal children may allow their children to have conversation with their neighbors or peers without being accompanied or guarded. Families with autism children always try to display various tactics of impression management as far as they can afford, as they attempt to avoid or prevent the stigma inherent in people's judgment of their families as families with autistic children. Efforts to avoid stigma are generally not realized by families and communities. However, the existence of the stigma itself is clearly felt by the stigmatized person. Based on the results of the study, there are three categories of family impression management at home, i.e; informative impression, academic impression and the impression of "ignorant".