“…For example, between 4 and 50% of individuals with AN show high ASD traitsscoring above clinical thresholds on diagnostic interviews for ASD (Anckarsäter et al, 2012;Vagni et al, 2016;Westwood et al, 2018Westwood et al, , 2017. Individuals with ASD show difficulties in ToM (Happé, 1994;Kleinman et al, 2001), emotion recognition (Bal et al, 2010;Harms et al, 2010;Hubert et al, 2007), empathy (Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright, 2004;Kok et al, 2016), and social attention (Chita-Tegmark, 2016). Further, ASD traits in the general population are associated with more difficulties in these areas (Blain et al, 2017;Halliday et al, 2014;Luo et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2018).…”