Eye contact aversion isn’t necessarily poor body control, it’s been studied quite a bit from various angles and found that people with autism who avoid eye contact do so because they feel actual discomfort, which can be found with fmri in combination with eye tracking software. In milder cases, the aversion is like an inversion of normal social sensations (that is, NT people feel similarly uncomfortable avoiding gaze as ASD with mild aversion do meeting it). In worse cases, it appears to be an over activation of a facial recognition system that produces intense distress.
Eye contact aversion isn’t necessarily poor body control, it’s been studied quite a bit from various angles and found that people with autism who avoid eye contact do so because they feel actual discomfort, which can be found with fmri in combination with eye tracking software. In milder cases, the aversion is like an inversion of normal social sensations (that is, NT people feel similarly uncomfortable avoiding gaze as ASD with mild aversion do meeting it). In worse cases, it appears to be an over activation of a facial recognition system that produces intense distress.
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-those-with-autism-eye-contact-isn-t-just-weird-it-s-distressing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645367/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71547-0
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