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but they have a lot of problems with people.
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Now, many autistic children have no language;
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they're totally shut off from society.
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But even some of them who'd learned language
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and who managed to get some sort of independent life,
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nevertheless will suffer from a severe social impairment.
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And this could be shown in all sorts of ways.
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A simple experiment developed by Simon Baron-Cohen
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goes like this.
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You show this to three- and four-year-olds.
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There's four candies there,
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and you say, "This is Charlie in the middle.