Identifying facial emotion expressions may alter how we view autism: Research
2 years, 7 months ago

Identifying facial emotion expressions may alter how we view autism: Research

Hindustan Times  

Adults with autism are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new research. Identifying facial emotion expressions may alter how we view autism: Research Recent studies show we may need to revise widely accepted notions that adults diagnosed with autism experience difficulties when it comes to recognizing social emotions. But autistic adults are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new Australian research. Recent research published in two papers in the leading international journal Autism Research shows we may need to revise widely accepted notions that adults diagnosed with autism experience difficulties when it comes to recognising social emotions and have little insight into their processing of others' face emotions.

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New perspectives on autism
11 months, 1 week ago

New perspectives on autism

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: This year’s observance of World Autism Day on April 2 highlighted the theme ‘Moving from surviving to thriving’, stressing the importance of shifting focus from mere coping with autism to fostering an environment where autistic individuals can flourish. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder has surged significantly in the past decades and the latest developments hint at the role of …

Early self-awareness of autism might lead to better life quality: Study
2 years, 11 months ago

Early self-awareness of autism might lead to better life quality: Study

Hindustan Times  

Individuals who learn they are autistic at a younger age can have a heightened quality of life and sense of well-being in adulthood. Early self-awareness of autism might lead to better life quality: Study That's the finding of a new study, published in the journal Autism, which also found that those who learned of their autism as adults reported more …

Autism awareness: See with the eyes of autistic people
2 years, 11 months ago

Autism awareness: See with the eyes of autistic people

Hindustan Times  

People with autism are the best at describing their situation. Autistic people get overstimulated very easily "Autism is defined as a profound development disorder, but it isn't that at all," says Zehrer. If that doesn't work, people with autism often use "stimming" — self-stimulating behaviors. Zehrer can explain that: "Rather than it being too little, autistic people usually have too …

Can't rely on facial expressions to understand the emotions of people says new study
5 years, 1 month ago

Can't rely on facial expressions to understand the emotions of people says new study

Firstpost  

After analyzing data about facial expressions and emotion, they concluded that it takes more than expressions to correctly detect emotion. Drawing cues from someone’s facial expression might be a wrong approach to conclude about people’s feelings as new research suggests that facial expressions might not be reliable indicators of emotion. They found that attempts to detect or define emotions based …

Too much social media could hamper your child's ability to read facial emotions, study finds
7 years, 6 months ago

Too much social media could hamper your child's ability to read facial emotions, study finds

ABC  

Are you guilty of spending hours on end staring at a tablet or smartphone? A new study has found that people who spend the most time browsing social media, especially Facebook, showed some traits similar to those of the autism spectrum disorder, including an inability to read facial emotions. "What we found is that the generation that grew up with …

People with autism DO care about others
9 years ago

People with autism DO care about others

Daily Mail  

People with autism are just as emotionally caring as everyone else but prone to a condition which stops empathy, a study has found. But alexithymia - which can be found in the general population - is common in people with autism with around half also having the condition. People with autism were found to show normal empathic concern for others …

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