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Communicating with Your Friend with ASD: Tips to Smooth Interactions

This clip, while it doesn't feature anyone with autism, is helpful for understanding how people with autism see the world. Not only can people on the spectrum not always use inflection in their speech/tone of voice, but they also don't understand it well. The following clip from Despicable Me is entertaining for most of us, in part because the characters only use one word for the majority of the clip - the word "banana." Most of us can understand what's going on in the clip simply by listening, but because people with autism have trouble with inflection, they can't follow what's happening in the clip without watching.
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