Interface with Autism

Looked into Autism as a study of how people who isolate themselves from the world might interface with the outside world. There seems to be this escape from reality that kids with Autism appear to have. Kids with autism seem to move there bodies in a robot manner similar to Joey the mechanical boy. Some suggest that its easier for people with Autism to imitate a machine then to face the real world and so they choose the easier path. Joey the mechanical boy needed to use mechanical devices to separate himself with the outside world. Like the monster i am presently creating there is still this buffer between the outside world and the monster's 'self'. Something i am trying to understand and dissolve.

What also distinguishes us from robots is the differences in pathology and normal people: can a robot be dysfunctional? The fact that we strive for perfection to make robots is perhaps the problem, maybe we need to produce something capable of pathology that gives the sense of being alive. Perhaps further research can look into these devices that we use as a buffer between us and the outside world.

Here are a couple links:
http://mysonhasautism.blogspot.com/2005/10/whats-wrong-with-computer-metaphor-of.html
http://cultronix.eserver.org/hilary/