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First, the author observes that in the case of autistic children there exists a lack of links with other human beings as such. Instead, intense relationships with objects take place due to the sensory stimuli that they produce.
These observations were correlated with ethological studies according to which certain animals, reared far from their fellow-creatures, establish links with other types of objects within their environment, most frequently with the individuals that take care of them or, in the absence of such a person, with a material object. After this link is established, they can stop relating to creatures of the same species.