My wife works with disabled children many of whom are autistic. Our son has Asperger's Syndrome and so is mildly affected by Autism. As a result, we have a lo

My wife works with disabled children many of whom are autistic. Our son has Asperger's Syndrome and so is mildly affected by Autism. As a result, we have a lot of experience with interacting with people with Autism. Unfortunately you do also get to hear a lot of inaccurate rubbish, (e.g. from "Autism Speaks"). This app does look useful however. However I don't think that people with autism necessarily find it "difficult" to maintain eye contact, they just don't appreciate its requirement in order to interact with others. For those that do find it genuinely difficult then I suspect this may be down to it adding yet more information for them to deal with. The best description I have ever heard of for autism is to imagine you are a postbox, and people are posting letters for you to read. This is fine as long as the rate of such letters isn't too great. Once information starts getting posted too fast, stuffing letters in faster than they can be processed, then those with autism throw them all in the air and essentially "shut down". This may well also explain the intense "focus" that autistic people may have for things that interest them - they just discard everything else that is not relevant to what they are focussing on.