"Autism is a lifelong condition".That's what I was always led to believe when I was a fresh-faced undergraduate student being taught developmental disorders 101. Indeed the recent autism myths and facts tweeted by the UK National Autistic Society (NAS) confirmed this fact; to quote: "#AutismMyth: A child with autism will grow out of the condition". Having said that I was also told that every person with autism also lacked a Theory of Mind (ToM) such was the research climate of the time.Yucca @
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Deborah Fein, Marianne Barton, Inge-Marie Eigsti, Elizabeth Kelley, Letitia Naigles, Robert T. Schultz, Michael Stevens, Molly Helt, Alyssa Orinstein, Michael Rosenthal & Eva Troyb (2013). Optimal outcome in individuals with a history of autism, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Other: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.12037/abstract
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