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I must say that there are no sources listed in this page for these so called facts.

If you Google: autism yawning

Then you will find page upon page about this research. It seems legit.

Jason.

If you look here: http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/09/21 ... 18497.html it states severely autistic children.

"The results showed that children with autism spectrum disorders yawned about half as often as typically developing children, and none of the children with severe autism showed contagious yawning."

Clearly, whatever the reason, moderately or mildly affected children still did yawn 'contagiously'.

Wha??????

Another BS thing about empathy - NTS HAVE NOT GOT MORE EMPATHY THAN AUTISTICS!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

I yawned reading this thread.

Well soon a thread would probably spring up saying ''is it an Aspie thing to yawn?''


Wouldn't surprise me.

My son, Asperger's, does not "catch" yawns, ever.

We've discussed this a few times, and even talking about it makes me yawn. Lol! But he is unaffected.

Dogs are known to yawn when they see people yawn. Seeing being the operative action, here. If you don't pay attention to people, i.e. look at their faces, you won't 'catch' the impulse to yawn.

I laughed reading this response.

My son will happily watch me yawn, but feel no urge to yawn himself. As others have mentioned, there have been various studies on this and they have observed lack of contagious yawning when seeing and hearing others yawn.

I will yawn the next time that I am around people to see if they yawn.

If they don't yawn, then I will accuse them of being autistic for not yawning.

If they do yawn, then I will accuse them of being autistic for yawning when I yawn.

I just yawned.

Do autistic children yawn when cats yawn? I hope so. I love cats.

Even non-autistic adults only yawn 43% of the time according to this research. It was 23% with PDD-NOS and 0% LFA.

As with all this stuff, it's interesting research in groups, but not at all useful for deducing anything about an individual. 57% of normals don't catch yawns either.

Yawns....

Jason.

I did too.

Is it just me that thinks the word yawn looks hilarious when written down?

I'm not doubting you, but just out of curiosity, how old is your son? I've read that children don't start to yawn contagiously until they're about five years old. Perhaps this is another developmental delay found in Asperger's?

I understand your anger but empathy is a nuanced term which people use to mean different things.

In this context when people say that autistic people "lack empathy" they are not trying to say that autistic people are cold and uncaring. They are using empathy to mean the ability to intuitively read other peoples emotions from things like their body language, their facial expressions, their tone of voice and, having so read those emotions, being able to intuitively understand (edit: and even to feel) just how the person is feeling at that time. It is a valid usage of the word. I don't think it is an insult or an error to say that a random aspie is likely to be less good at or might have to work harder at those things than a random nt of the same gender. The ability to do this (or not rather) is even one of the diagnostic tests for autism (reading the mind in the eyes).

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