Autism and Eye Contact by Kelly Jean Sullivan

  
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People with autism spectrum

 disorder have difficulty maintaining eye contact.

 Less activity in the dorsal parietal cortex could explain this difficulty. The more severe the ASD diagnosis, the less this region of the brain lit up.

Why do children with autism struggle with eye contact?

The hyperarousal/gaze aversion model suggests that looking at the eyes of others is aversive, and that people with ASD avoid eye contact and faces to prevent negative affective arousal