Research objectives: Investigate the public opinion in Split about social care of children with autistic disorder. Find out what kind of factors have negative impact in forming the public opinion in the matter and determine the most appropriate ways of forming a positive social climate in the matter of taking care of the children with autistic disorder. Compare the results with the rest of the big researches on the subject. Methods: The research was conducted based on informations that were gathered by a short-term questionnaires that were given to the residents of Split in a time span of July, 24. to August, 27. 2016. All participants signed the informative consent prior filling the questionnaire. There were 110 participants in total that took the questionnaire. Three of them were excluded from the research due to the lack of knowledge about the autistic disorder. Results: Results of the research show that the participants have a pozitivan stav towards children with autistic disorder, especially regarding their integration in public schools, kinder gardens, and social life as independent people. Conclusions: According to the results of the research, we can conclude that the general population in Split has a very positive attitude towards children with autistic disorder and their integration to social life but also there's still a lot of education needed on the subject. The majority of participants recognizes the need also and benefit an integration of children with autism into regular schools and kindergartens, for them and for other children. The majority of participants agrees the should strengthen the support from the state for this population in the form of educating people who work with the children, but also to educate the children themselves to perform simple tasks and at the same time exploiting their potential genius. The results of this study are consistent with other international studies on this topic.