I wish that neurotypical people put in as much effort into understanding me as I do for them,” writes Rachel Barnes in an ...

Autism has characteristics that include challenges ... such as eye contact, facial expressions, and gestures. Autistic adults may have an unusual pattern of nonverbal communication and/or might ...

"Autistic individuals use the same basic facial movements to express emotions, but their intensity often falls outside the culturally familiar range that most people recognize," said Elizabeth ...

Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the study found that while individuals with autism express emotions like everyone else, their facial expressions may be too subtle for the human eye to detect.