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Autism: How making eye contact can be exhausting

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Eloise Stark is a psychology PhD student who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 27. She talks to Claudia Hammond about the strategies she uses to overcome the problems she experiences when interacting with other people. Understanding people’s emotions and making eye contact are often challenging for autistic people. Learning to do these things comes with downsides. (Image: Autism. Credit: Getty Images.)

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