AUTHOR=Zamoscik Vera , Mier Daniela , Schmidt Stephanie N. L. , Kirsch Peter TITLE=Early Memories of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum Assessed Using Online Self-Reports JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry VOLUME=7 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00079 DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00079 ISSN=1664-0640 ABSTRACT=
“When I was one and a half years old, I was on a ferry lying on red seats” – while several autobiographical accounts by people with autism reveal vivid memories of early childhood, the vast amount of experimental investigations found deficits in personal autobiographic memory in autism. To assess this contradiction empirically, we implemented an online questionnaire on early childhood events to compare people on the autism spectrum (AS) and non-autistic people with respect to their earliest autobiographical episodic memories and the earliest semantic