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• Impaired ability to make friends with peers
• Preoccupation with certain objects or subjects.
• Inflexible adherence to specific routines or rituals
• Stereotyped, repetitive, or unusual use of language
• Absence or impairment of imaginative and social play
• Impaired ability to initiate or sustain a conversation with others
• Restricted patterns of interest that are abnormal in intensity or focus
Robert C. Gates

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