A low-cost tool accurately distinguishes neurotypical children from children with autism just by watching them copy the dance moves of an on-screen avatar for a minute. It can even tell autism from ADHD, conditions that commonly overlap.

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https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/autism-motion-detection-diagnosis/

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Doesn't dyspraxia more specifically effect motor planning while this isn't even a symptom but rather a sign of autism? So then a study seeing if there is a difference between dyspraxia without autism and autism either with or without dyspraxia would be even more interesting.

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The football club I follow has an autistic player on it. If he simply couldn't understand and copy body movements I question how he got to such a high level of performance. I'd imagine he'd have "passed" this test.

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Harder to learn doesn't mean impossible. I'm probably autistic and I've long noticed if someone is facing me trying to show me something it's like I often have to visually rotate what they're showing me in my head in order to understand it.

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Fair enough. It might not be the same for everyone on the spectrum as well. I guess I'm just saying you'd think he's on the higher end of that ability based on his achievement.