Everyone googles themselves to see if they exist, right? I have a doppelganger who is a professor of occupational therapy, specializing, interestingly, in Asperger's. Serendipitous. Or not.

There was an interesting article on the Cognitive Daily website that talked about eye contact and why people don't make it: no relation at all to autism, unless you see everything through that lens:

But another explanation is possible at least some of the time. We get a great deal of information by looking at faces, and this information places a significant load on our cognitive systems. Perhaps, when we’re asked a difficult question and need to concentrate, looking away from a face helps us focus on the cognitive demands of the question.

Which reminds me of what I sometimes think happens w/Primera: too much to take in at once, especially for a girl who has trouble maintaining her attention on one thing. So it's adaptive, her behavior. The post goes on:

So it appears that there are at least two reasons we look away from others while we talk to them: because of our self-consciousness or embarrassment at the intimacy of the situation, and because averting our gaze enables us to focus on the ideas behind what we’re saying. This is not to say there aren’t additional reasons. As Doherty-Sneddon and Phelps point out, there are different expectations in different cultures for how much we should look at each other. However, their work does appear to demonstrate that there is more to gaze aversion than just social nicety.

Self-evident if you spend a lot of time around autistic people, but apparently less evident in the typical world.