With its effects, it is hard to foretell what other people can do, hard to translate various facial expressions, understand how their actions influence other people, difficult to understand social limits and hard to show openly what they feel emotionally. It then leads to selfishness and lack of interest in what other people do or feel. It manifests differently to people who have ASD and those without as well as at different stages in development. Therefore, mind blindness is a reality and understanding it better will help manage the condition within the society. References

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