Unusual eye contact

Your client is unusual eye contact no matter how important.

A person may avoid eye contact, maintain eye contact too much or at inappropriate moments. This may even make conversation challenging for someone who is not used to this.

Some people may even feel threatened or insulted by the wrong kind of eye contact and it may take extra effort to learn not to feel discomfort.

Eye contact is one way in which we connect emotionally and people with autism struggle with understanding other people's feelings. They have to learn the rules of eye contact as you would learn a foreign language.

Your client may have problems with reading notes, sequencing, understanding time or following instructions.

People with autism may struggle with the social rules around eye contact because they have to learn these rules explicitly rather than intuitively.

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