Faces - Autism Explained

Common knowledge is that the autistic struggle socially because we don't make eye contact and therefore miss important parts of body language; that we struggle to recognize others emotions. But do we? While we do process faces differently, does this cause deficiencies, or is it just a different path to the same outcome?

📚 Speeded Recognition of Fear and Surprise in Autism
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0301006618811768

📚 Is Emotion Recognition Impaired in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-010-1030-y

📚 Face and object processing in autism spectrum disorders
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.7

📚 Face processing in adolescents with autistic disorder: The inversion and composite effects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278262603000423

📚 Understanding of Simple and Complex Emotions in Non-retarded Children with Autism
http://www.gruberpeplab.com/teaching/psych3303_spring2018/documents/12.1_Capps1992.pdf

📚 Executive Function Deficits in High‐Functioning Autistic Individuals: Relationship to Theory of Mind
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb00351.x