Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas recently turned the spotlight on social interaction in autism by examining it as a two-way street. “This presumes that any difficulties in social interaction are driven solely by the autistic person. “Anecdotally, many autistic people often report better quality of social interaction when engaging with other autistic people. “While typically developing participants preferred future interaction with other typically developing partners over autistic partners,” Sasson said, “autistic adults actually trended toward the opposite, preferring future interaction with other autistic adults. “These findings suggest that social interaction difficulties in autism are not an absolute characteristic of the individual,” Sasson said.