In this study, first, we tested a hypothesis that typically developing（TD）adults would be more permissive of pragmatic impairments when their autism spectrum quotient（AQ）was relatively high. Second, we tested the same for adults with autism spectrum disorder（ASD）．Third, we tested a hypothesis that adults with ASD would be more permissive than TD adults of pragmatic impairments. To verify the first two, we investigated the correlations between the AQ scores of TD adults and adults with ASD and their evaluation of pragmatic impairments by asking them to rate how they felt about communication behaviors described in the pragmatic skills and pragmatics-related social engagement subitems of the Communication Checklist-Adult （CC-A）on a five-point Likert scale. The results indicated that the higher the score of the TD adults on the AQ, the more often they evaluated pragmatic impairments as unproblematic. Contrastingly, the higher the AQ score of the adults with ASD, the more often they evaluated pragmatic impairments as problematic. To verify the third, we compared the degree of permissiveness of pragmatic impairments between the TD adults and the adults with ASD. No differences were seen between the two groups in this regard.

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