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why does an autism kid avoid eye to eye contact?
Autism is a disorder with core feature "poor non verbal communication", this involves poor eye to eye connection. Autism kids may start staring at objects, toys, corners or light but not staring at living beings easily.
This mainly occurs because they find living beings difficult to connect at understand. Living beings / people are not static like objects but they keep changing colour/ clothes, position and the environment; and this makes them uncomfortable.
When the new awareness/ change occurs, the kid not being used to it gets anxious/ shy/ feared and loses confidence to connect with eyes. non living objects/ toys being static, the kids finds them easy to control and stay connected with the object as comfort zone, stimming is a way to stay into a repitition or routine which if changed they find more anxiety. - DRKONDEKAR
Its not unusual in an autism kids to have things kept in line [control=rigidity] or breaking wheels of cars to show control, or killing ants or forcing people to do something or other with stubborn behaviour.
Remember, all can be changed. New learning, dynamicity can be introduced and eye connection with humans can be initiated in as early as 3 weeks with Goal Directed Cognitive Efforts. you may not develop it better, if you keep accepting it or focussing on object based learning, instead of human to human connection based learning. Medicines do help greatly.
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Human to human awareness and stepping away from non living object based learning is first step to initiate human to human eye to socialisation to initiate listening based communication, to improve language based civilisation, appropriate for age. DR Kondekar www.autismdoctor.in
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