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Autism - Social Symptoms
Description:
Autistic individuals often have poor social skills. Here we see an autistic child who does not interact in typical social play.
Transcript:
When the task I am performing ends, he turns away and continues to play rather repetitively on his own.
Keywords:
autism, autistic, spectrum, disorder, social, symptom,
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This work by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Related content:
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