{"id":162,"date":"2010-11-22T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspergersparent.wordpress.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-11-04T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T14:33:11","slug":"eye-contact-phd-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polymathsolution.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/eye-contact-phd-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Contact, PhD Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all hear how people with Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome have poor eye contact. Eye contact skills can be learned, and many classes for AS kids work on basic eye contact as a skill. &#8220;Eye Contact 101&#8221; has become a catch phrase for classes on beginning social skills.<\/p>\n<p>Eye contact is far more than just looking at someone when talking to them. There are several skills, all learnable, that can make a person appear very charismatic, have a &#8220;\ufeff&#8217;Reality Distortion Field&#8217; (RDF)\u2014an aura of charisma, confidence, and persuasion&#8221;. This is not Eye Contact 101 stuff, but eye contact brought to a level that most NT folk haven&#8217;t mastered.\u00a0<a title=\"4 Hour Workweek, Eye Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fourhourworkweek.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/bill-clinton-reality-distortion-field\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timferriss+%28The+Blog+of+Author+Tim+Ferriss%29\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a post<\/a> about how eye contact can be used at the highest level to win friends and influence people \u2014 or become President. Before sharing this with your kids, note that the text is written for adults, with a few very mild sexual references, and more than a few political ones.<\/p>\n<p>Do try watching the video clip with no sound, as the author suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all hear how people with Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome have poor eye contact. Eye contact skills can be learned, and many classes for AS kids work on basic eye contact as a skill. &#8220;Eye Contact 101&#8221; has become a catch phrase for classes on beginning social skills. 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