EAIE-Scale-The Examination of Autistic Intersubjective Experiences. A qualitative tool to the exploration of sociality.

Introduction: The Examination of Autistic Intersubjective Experiences is a semi-structured interview aimed at a phenomenological exploration of experiential and subjective ways of dealing with sociality.

Methods: As a qualitative study, this work can be understood in continuity with EASE (Examination of Anomalous Self Experience [1] and EAWE (Examination of Anomalous World Experience, [2]. While these models focus on anomalies of selfhood and experience of the external world respectively, this semi-structured interview focuses instead on the divergent ways dealing with intersubjective experience and on the difficulties that people with a diagnosis of autism experience in the social domain.

Conclusion: The advantages are both theoretic and practical: from a philosophical perspective, it will be interesting to observe how intersubjectivity works. From a clinical perspective, the collected data will be useful both for clinicians and caregivers, allowing them to better understand and cope with the autistic subject, and favor the communication between different social styles.