is the concept that individuals with ASDs have difficulty understanding another person's thoughts, affects, emotions, or points of view because they are mindblind.
Mindblindness
A. is the inability of a person to empathized or understand that people think or feel differently.
B. Has nothing to do with intelligence, people with high IQ or Asperger's can be .
Mind Readers
Unconscious is constantly piecing together cues from the environment that allow making inferences about people, whether or not we know them.
ASD is not a disease . It is a
is a developmental disorder that is a condition in which there is a disturbance of some stage in a child's typical physical and/or psychological development, often retarding development.
ADSD shows up in
the first 5 years of life.
Severe end of ASD Specturm
May be unable to speak and also have mental retardaton
Mild end of ASD Spectrum
May be able to function in a regular classroom and even reach the point where no longer meets criteria for autism.