Like everyone else in the world, people with ASD experience emotions. However, because of the way their brains process, one with ASD could experience a more negative set of emotions rather than someone without ASD. " [A]dults with autism spectrum disorders, when compared with typically developing individuals, were significantly less likely to use reappraisal and more likely to use suppression. They also reported greater levels of negative emotion in general" (McClure, 2012, para. 12).
Even though there is an idea of the emotional process a person with ASD, the side effects are currently unclear. McClure (2012) goes on to suggest that one theory of what might occur as a result of the above emotional process is "alexithymia – the inability to identify or describe one's own emotions" (para. 13). With luck, the research of the emotional characteristics with ASD will lead to " a training regimen to improve the emotion regulation performance of individuals with autism – and not only by steering them toward the strategies that work for typically developing individuals" (McClure, 2012, para. 20).
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Even though there is an idea of the emotional process a person with ASD, the side effects are currently unclear. McClure (2012) goes on to suggest that one theory of what might occur as a result of the above emotional process is "alexithymia – the inability to identify or describe one's own emotions" (para. 13). With luck, the research of the emotional characteristics with ASD will lead to " a training regimen to improve the emotion regulation performance of individuals with autism – and not only by steering them toward the strategies that work for typically developing individuals" (McClure, 2012, para. 20).
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