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| - Snagglebox lists several reasons why autistic people may avoid eye contact:
* Overwhelm (too much information to take in) or confusion
* Face-blindness; it is uncomfortable to make eye contact with someone whose face they don't recognize
* It's useless
* Fear; autistic people may find eye contact threatening. Nameera Akhtar and Morton Ann Gernsbacher note that neurotypical infants will look away from their caregivers when overwhelmed, and this action seems to calm them.
- We’ve all experienced it, right? That sudden feeling like someone is looking at you. A chill runs up your spine, and you are convinced that you have to find the source of the sensation. You look around and see someone just randomly staring at you. It gives you even more of a spook, but, after a few seconds of awkwardness, it subsides. You and the person go your separate ways, never to see one another ever again. Or do you? Why is it that we get that sensation when we make eye contact with another human being? I will tell you why. It's because they aren’t human beings. Not. At. All.
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| - Snagglebox lists several reasons why autistic people may avoid eye contact:
* Overwhelm (too much information to take in) or confusion
* Face-blindness; it is uncomfortable to make eye contact with someone whose face they don't recognize
* It's useless
* Fear; autistic people may find eye contact threatening. Nameera Akhtar and Morton Ann Gernsbacher note that neurotypical infants will look away from their caregivers when overwhelmed, and this action seems to calm them. Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon and her colleagues studied how averting eye contact (in neurotypicals) while thinking can improve concentration. They then tested three groups of children: neurotypicals, autistic children, and children with Williams syndrome (who often enjoy intense eye contact). All three groups practiced similar gaze aversion during a math test. However, the autistic children looked away more when listening, and looked away less when thinking. Their findings suggest that perhaps listening places a greater cognitive strain on autistic people, so avoiding eye contact allows them to process spoken words better.
- We’ve all experienced it, right? That sudden feeling like someone is looking at you. A chill runs up your spine, and you are convinced that you have to find the source of the sensation. You look around and see someone just randomly staring at you. It gives you even more of a spook, but, after a few seconds of awkwardness, it subsides. You and the person go your separate ways, never to see one another ever again. Or do you? Why is it that we get that sensation when we make eye contact with another human being? I will tell you why. It's because they aren’t human beings. Not. At. All. They look just like us, talk like us, act like us. But there is something strange about these creatures that mock us. They are each destined to certain people in their lives, they know not of who they are or what they look like. Just ordinary people, like you and I. When they find one of those people, the two of them make eye contact. At that moment, they are linked to you by a mortal bond. That is, if you die, the human, then they die. Well that’s not so bad, now is it? I mean, if I was linked to someone by those means, I would personally try and protect the person. Wouldn’t you? Remember that chill? That eerie feeling of ice shooting up your spine and back down again? That is your memories and your future, both of which are being copied at that moment and stored into their minds. Yet again, so what? Now they know all of your personal secrets. It's not like they will do anything, say steal your money or something. But no one ever does that, really they don’t. Imagine this. Say you met someone the other day, a random person. Who’s to say that’s not the next Hitler? If I was to be endowed with all of the mindset of that person… I wouldn’t care if I died, as long as I took them with me. Then again… maybe it's not so bad. Sure, it’s rare, and there are definitely good people out there, they are just hard to find. And, if I was to see an extreme goodness in someone’s heart, I would want to protect them. For my life, yes, but for theirs' as well. Like a guardian angel, right? Just…remember one thing. If anything, remember what I am about to tell you, because if you are like me, it will change the way you think about your life and the way you live. It may even save you from being struck down by one of THEM. Humanity is inherently evil.
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