Art helpful with High Functioning Autism (HFA)? Any studies?

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Many findings on how art can help people on the Autism Spectrum mostly focuses on art-therapy, and arts-programs for youth. Yet, detailed findings on how the arts help with HFA for all ages through adulthood are hard to find.

The studies/findings on how the arts are beneficial for HFA adults are too often overlooked. For example, how can the arts help with social-skills; that is the tactile sensations of handling art-materials might boost those overlooked parts of the brain; which might "break the ice" in social settings so to speak?

Any specific studies of findings?

I don't treat art as therapy and my experience is to the contrary. I paint in watercolor and the presence of others when I'm creating is distracting and annoying. Art is a serious endeavor and deeply personal. And IRL I am highly unsociable, it has not assisted me in that regard.

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The arts might help "break the ice" so to speak.

The tactile sensations of handling art-materials, and painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. to boost those overlooked parts of the psyche (for lack of a better term) - that is the parts of the psyche which might just be important to developing friendships - with like-minded people!