Great video! One small note about eye contact: I (and other autistic people I know) tend to avoid direct two-sided eye contact. It comes with a huge amount of emotional information and quickly distracts from what the person is saying/what we are trying to say. For us, it's more a sign that the person is actively listening when they're looking away, because that means they're focusing on what they're hearing, and it's not a sign of nervousness or deception ☺️ (it's actually very common for the speaker to look away and the listener to look at the speaker's face, and to switch when the roles switch)
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Great video! One small note about eye contact: I (and other autistic people I know) tend to avoid direct two-sided eye contact. It comes with a huge amount of emotional information and quickly distracts from what the person is saying/what we are trying to say. For us, it's more a sign that the person is actively listening when they're looking away, because that means they're focusing on what they're hearing, and it's not a sign of nervousness or deception ☺️ (it's actually very common for the speaker to look away and the listener to look at the speaker's face, and to switch when the roles switch)
Yep, that's a valid point. Thank you for highlighting that.