Experiment Offers Look Through Eyes of Autism: “Enlisting Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and a high-tech eye-tracking device developed for the military, researchers at Yale ran experiments that came closer than anything yet to offering a look at the world as seen through the eyes of people with autism.

In one experiment, described in the current issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the researchers compared the eye movements of a highly intelligent autistic adult and a control subject of the same age, sex and I.Q. as they watched the relentless emotional conflicts of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

What the experiment showed was that the two subjects were seeing the movie in starkly different ways…” NY Times