FRONT COVER -- Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder? Nonverbal Communication, Asperger Syndrome and the Interbrain -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What is nonverbal communication, and how does it affect us? -- Right and left brain, or something -- Sharing the channels of communication -- Channels of communication -- What is the specialized function of nonverbal communication? -- Signs of relationship -- Chapter 2 What is the importance of gaze and shared attention? -- Mutual gaze -- 'You don't see me any more' -- The absence of the other's gaze -- Gaze and attention -- What happens when one's eye is caught? -- Why is mutual gaze so important? -- Gaze following -- The case of blindness -- Showing -- Scan paths -- What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (co-constructing a world without the use of narrative) -- Chapter 3 What do people make of nonverbal communication? -- 'Mystery mining' -- I can always tell when he is lying -- Why people with an ASD do not lie, and why they may sometimes smile inappropriately: an aside on the unreliability of mystery mining -- Why doesn't lie detection work? -- Performance and nonverbal communication -- But what are we enhancing when we try to be better communicators? -- Collaboration as a function of nonverbal communication -- The beat of the drum, the pace of the dance -- Collaborative attention -- Hidden in plain sight -- The interbrain -- Intuitions about society and the interbrain -- Are cells not organisms? -- Cybernetic parallels for networks mediated by nonverbal communication -- Implications for ASD -- An obvious objection -- Cache -- Chapter 4 What is the evidence that impaired nonverbal communication is the fundamental problem inautistic spectrum disorder? -- Factors to keep in mind -- Getting back to the fundamentals.

Anxiety and comfort seeking: is repetition fundamental to an ASD? -- Linking the theories together -- What do we need a single theory for? -- Why I think that being socially offline is the fundamental impairment of an ASD -- Why is nonverbal communication neglected? -- Simulations and caches: the difference between Simon and Roger -- Chapter 5 Is an impairment of nonverbal communication a brain problem? -- Brain structure, autism, and nonverbal communication -- Icons -- Gaze -- Evidence for the cache -- Is there neuroimaging evidence for the interbrain? -- Attachment theory, the interbrain and the cingulate -- Are these brain areas affected in ASD? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 What are the consequences of living with an impairment in nonverbal communication? -- Being bullied -- Being out of touch with emotions -- Persuasiveness and impact -- Being marginalized -- Making an identity -- Thinking differently -- Chapter 7 Nonverbal communication as a tool to understanding and moving forward -- Having a diagnosis -- Focusing down on diagnosis -- Getting a diagnosis right -- Moving forward -- Reducing interbrain demands -- Bandwidth -- Responding -- The evoked emotion paradigm -- Viruses and spam/emotional malware -- Being with -- Offline processes -- How can people with an ASD learn implicitly? -- Prevention -- Chapter 8 Can society afford people with an ASD, revisited -- Can society afford to recognize people with anASD? -- Why society cannot afford bullying -- Are people with an ASD disabled? -- Can society afford to exclude people with an ASD? -- Neurodiversity -- Interbrain malware -- Originality -- Innocence -- Limit situations -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- BACK COVER.