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- Shane: Because there's a common test for those with autism where It's called, I think it's called "a theory of a state of mind", where they're shown a thought experiment of a girl placing a ball into a box, and then while they're gone, another girl comes over and takes that ball and puts it into a chest. And they're asked where would the first girl look for the ball? And some autistic people would say the chest because they themselves know that's where it is. Not knowing that the first girl doesn't know that. And there are s definitely cases where there are people on the spectrum who hurt people's feelings without realizing it because they're not aware of certain social rules, or they're not adept with the fact that some things are not really socially okay to say.