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Social Perception in High-Level Autism

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High-Functioning Individuals with Autism

Part of the book series: Current Issues in Autism ((CIAM))

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What does it mean to perceive, relate to, know about, even be a “person”? Time and again since Kanner’s (1943) original paper on autistic disturbances of affective contact, children with autism have been described as treating others as if they were things more like pieces of furniture than sentient human beings. We are led to ask: What is so special about persons, how does the normal infant (and child) come to recognize people as people, and what has gone so badly awry in autism? These are questions I shall be trying to address in the course of this chapter.

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Hobson, R.P. (1992). Social Perception in High-Level Autism. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) High-Functioning Individuals with Autism. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2456-8_9

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