language and the role of conversation as the apex of linguistic experience. Therefore, we must take special care in our discussion here. Richard Griffin and Daniel C. Dennett of Tufts University get at what seems to be the general thread running through many autism cases, namely that sufferers of autism share a ‘pervasive bias to attend toward local rather than global features’. This is sometimes referred to as ‘weak central coherence’ and means that sufferers struggle to grasp an entire social situation in context.
