Dr. Sue Fletcher-Watson and her colleague Dr. Catherine Crompton are studying social intelligence in autism. They want to discover how autistic people interact with each other and to learn more about interactions with non-autistic people. Autism is a way of being that differs in the way that the world is processed by the body. The different perception of stimulus modulates the way the autistic person interacts with others and the world. It is common, in mixed social situations, for people with autism to tune their behavior to the expectations of the non-autistic. This effort to simulate expectation in order to comfort the other is an exhausting endeavor. The autism spectrum defines people based on their level of need. The linear nature of this idea is now seen as inaccurate and is being replaced with the term "autism constellation." It’s a better way to understand the diverse nature of individuals. The research team decided to focus their experiment on the transfer of information. The findings showed that the transfer of information between autistic subjects was just as effective as the non-autistic. When the group was divided between autistic and neurotypical people, that’s where the communication of information and personal rapport suffered. Dr. Fletcher-Watson states, “Increasingly, now, autistic people are setting up their own support networks and groups. We don’t want to separate autistic people from the neurotypical but we do want to create opportunities for autistic people to be together on their own terms.”