A short YouTube commentary by Ming @ Agents of Speech addressing parental concern when a child avoids eye contact. Ming argues that forcing eye contact treats only the symptom and not underlying causes, compares symptomatic treatment to treating a cough without curing COVID, and cautions against concluding autism solely from lack of looking.
If your child doesn't want your attention, why would they look at you? Do you have something or are you a person of interest that the child wants your attention? If not, then why would they look? I do not like it when parents are scared of my child doesn't look. It might be autism. Let me solve it. By pushing their heads like this and look at me. Look at me like that doesn't solve it. That only cures the symptoms. If you have Covid and you have cough, you eat something, you ingest honey or whatever to stop the coughing, does it mean you get rid of the COVID No. Right. So you have to be very careful about that, okay?
