A hypothesis about the determining process of autistic states.
First, the author observes that in the case of autistic children there exists a lack of links with other human beings as such. Instead, intense relationships with objects take place due to the sensory stimuli that they produce. These observations were correlated with ethological studies according to which certain animals, reared far from their fellow-creatures, establish links with other types of objects within their environment, most frequently with the individuals that take care of them or, in the absence of such a person, with a material object. After this link is established, they can stop relating to creatures of the same species. On this basis a hypothesis is elaborated meaning that autistic people would have the instinctive precognition of the creatures of the same species fulfilled not by such creatures (imprinting), but by partial aspects of them, regarding sensory stimuli that they produce.
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D000328:Adult; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology