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Spectrum Stories: Seeing through an autistic person’s eyes

Virtual reality can help typical people experience sensory hypersensitivity and other perceptual differences that autistic individuals describe. Host Ben Kuebrich reports.

By Ben Kuebrich

24 October 2018 | 1 min read

Black and white street scene with high contrast and fragmentation to show possible experience of person with autism. — Courtesy of Yukie Nagai

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Virtual reality can help typical people experience sensory hypersensitivity and other perceptual differences that autistic individuals describe. Host Ben Kuebrich reports. Read the related article here.

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Spectrum, Anxiety, Autism, Empathy, Science and society, Sensory perception, Signs and Symptoms, Social difficulties, The Transmitter stories, Treatments

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