r/science Professor | Medicine Jan 30 '25

Neuroscience 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.

https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/autism-motion-detection-diagnosis/
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u/jojo_the_mofo Jan 30 '25

That makes sense as someone on the spectrum. I've always sucked at those things such as martial arts when having to copy other people doing things with their bodies, copying dance moves, piano, guitar, anything to where I need to know where my body is in space.

If you've seen Ian Curtis dancing, yeah, that's me, not the most elegant. Though I do love to watch people on youtube dance who are good at it; it's fascinating seeing people do something I'm not good at.