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What is an "autism stare"?
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Failure to: make eye contact. Gaze avoidance. A blank look on one's face, not visually interacting.
Answered 5/16/2016
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Uncomfortable gaze: Kids with autism are uncomfortable with eye contact. They can learn in therapy to make eye contact and often what happens is they can develop a trained "stare" in which they are trying to make eye contact (which is terribly innately uncomfortable for them) and they end up " over doing it" so to speak. I think this is what you are referring to.
Answered 12/1/2014
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