Why should you never create goals to target eye contact in neurodivergent populations? For neurotypical people, eye contact is often a way to connect and brings some people comfort. But this may not be true for our autistic friends, and this is why we should not be writing goals to target eye contact. Imaging from fMRIs show us that while autistic people make eye contact, there is heightened activity in the amygdala and other subcortical areas. This suggests that eye contact may provoke an unusu