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-<blockquote>The most notable example of this is the intense world theory, initially proposed by Henry Makram and his co-authors in 2007. This theory claims that autism is a product of ‘hyper’ sensitivity rather than ‘hypo’ sensitivity as had been previously thought. In the words of Makram et al:
+ https://intersectionalneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/are-autistic-people-really-too-sensitive-how-the-intense-world-theory-gaslights-the-autistic-population
-‘because a subset of cues are overly intense, compulsively attended to, excessively processed and remembered with frightening clarity and intensity. Autistic people may, therefore, neither at all be mind-blind nor lack empathy for others, but be hyper-aware of selected fragments of the mind, which may be so intense that they avoid eye contact, withdraw from social interactions and stop communicating.’
-For them, this includes not just cognitive-perceptual differences, but also ‘hyper-emotionality’, leading autistic people to become, in their words, ‘trapped in a limited […] internal world’. In turn, subsequent research has seemingly supported this theory, such as a recent study which found precisely that autistic people don’t look others in the eyes, not due to social disinterestedness as previously thought, but rather due to sensory-overload – just as autistic people, and in turn Makram, suggested. **by Robert Chapman** </blockquote> full article to be found here https://intersectionalneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/are-autistic-people-really-too-sensitive-how-the-intense-world-theory-gaslights-the-autistic-population