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02/16/2008: "Autistic people lack self-awareness"

According to the new findings, people with Asperger's play the game just as a nonautistic person would, but they lack the characteristic "self" signal in the brain. Normal people lack the signal only when they think that they are playing against a computer, suggesting that autistic people view interactions with other people similarly to the way that normal people think about interacting with a computer.

[ Maybe they're just more functional and less dramatic. Possibly a lot of good could come from others learning from the autistic kids. ]

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20167/