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When autistic people lose eye contact, facial expressions, vocal tone, or “close up,” it is often interpreted as a functional impairment, resistance, or anxiety. In this article, it is described how social difficulties can be understood as states and closely linked to the four parasympathetic cranial nerves: III, VII, IX, and X.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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