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Figure 1: adapted from Frith, U. (1989) Autism: Explaining the Enigma, Oxford: Blackwell.

Figure 2: © Axel Scheffler

Figure 5: © Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry; taken from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes: Test Revised Version

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Figure 7: courtesy Robert T. Schultz

Figure 8: © Jason Wolff

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Figure 10: courtesy of Professor Ferguson-Smith

Text

Activity 4: extract from Empathy Quotient (EQ) and Systemising Quotient (SQ) for Adults (Autism Research Centre 2018)

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Activity 2: © The Open University

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