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Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on others.
“Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on others.”
Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on others.
Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.
Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks, sympathetic vocalisations and comforting. This echoes what you find in adulthood: more women report frequently sharing the emotional distress of their friends.
When I first started in this field there were all kinds of stereotypes about autism, as if these were children from another planet, or children who had been brought up by wolves, that they weren't part of our population and were somehow separate.
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.
Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.