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Reading facial expressions

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Normal adults have trobule choosing the one word that best describes the attitude expressed in each pair of eyes.The autistic people find the task very difficult.For this,they cannot interpret facial expressions or emotions. They don't know how to share or make friends.If autistic persons can't persive gestures and tone of voice in another people is going to affect social development because cannot distinguish a joke from a something real and a conversation loses much of the meaning.

Most people perceive the dot on the right as larger.Autistic people are not fooled by context.They see the two dots as equal.

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Can you find the triangle in the carriage? and the cross in the thatched design?Both are present in the size and position shown.This task are hard for normal people but for autistic persons is easy because they have different perception.
Normal people can see forest when autistic persons can see each tree.

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