ABSTRACT.
Muratori and Maestro (2007, this issue) lay out fundamental issues by
highlighting the importance of looking at early signs of autism,
essential for early intervention, and by combining the most recent and
relevant psychological and neuropsychological approaches to the
syndrome. In accordance with Muratori and Maestro, we start from the
recent definition of ‘shared intentionality’ to stress the importance
of differentiating the ability to share intentions (neural
representation), which has recently been reported to be deficient in
autism, from the intention/motivation to share experiences.
Intersubjectivity requires both in order to let interpersonal
experiences become part of a ‘dialogical self’. An inability to
understand social interactions, in addition to other cognitive
impairments, might lead to an impoverished and distorted internal
dialogue, resulting in an incapacity to satisfy the preserved desire to
share.
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