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Research Explains Sensory Integration Difficulties in Autism By Rick Nauert PhD

Unconvincing for me. Their definition of sensory issues may be a very narrow one which may leave a lot of experience out. I wonder what information source they relied upon in the first place. These kinds of experiments often seem to rely on assumptions that are often incomplete or received ideas.

Shifting the focus to sensory processing is great, but I am really perplexed by their building entirely on the tactile sense. Maybe it is just poorly written, but there are already strong theories out there that posit that social communication deficits are due to sensory integration dysfunction and an inability to process some parts of social communication as a result (unable to keep up with the volume of data because of hypersensitivity, inability to perceive some data or get accurate data because of hyposensitivity or distortions, variances in processing speed leading to audio and visual processing being out of sync, etc.) There is also lots and lots of anecdotal evidence from people who report being mono-channel, needing to read lips, being unable to understand verbal communication if trying to process visual information.

Don't know. When I touch myself, I experience a lot less sensory sensitivity than when someone else touches me.

That's true for everyone, whatever their neurology.

seems mostly true

In my view, the article doesn't do much to actually link these claimed experimental results with sensation to the operations of social interaction.