A study conducted by researchers at Yale this week revealed that while people with autism have disabilities in reading individual emotions, they have an unexpected amazing ability to understand and apply social rules to groups of people.  They understand social phenomena much better than those without. So how can this be?  Also, a new groundbreaking study shows scientists that there are changes in brain activity that are observed way before a diagnosis, which can change early detection and early intervention of ASD.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=31501348
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31519897