Donville, Barbara <br/><br/>
The Strange Circle of Stereotypy 

 -  2013.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> One of the characteristic traits commonly cited in autism is stereotypy. In this article, on the basis of the clinical observation of an autistic child who was educated in our care, we will attempt to show that the autistic stereotypy frequent almost mechanical repetition of the same posture, movement, or form of speech €”is not a kind of repetition but what Douglas Hofstadter calls a “strange circle.”