I’ve been thinking a lot about eye contact recently. Both of my autistic kids have different atypical ways of making eye contact. My daughter, who is nine, can look at you while you speak, but if she gets into an animated conversation and tries to say her part, her eyes flit and roam all over the place, almost like she is grasping for invisible words in the air. We repeatedly did an experiment not long ago. She tried to make eye contact with me while she spoke, and she lost all of her words. She would completely forget what she...
