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Table 5.

Excerpts of narratives differing in quality from parents of individuals with ASD and parent controls during the “Farmland Image” of the TAT

Example of strong narrative quality in parent control	Example of low quality narrative quality in BAP(+) parent
Age = 42.3, sex = female, FSIQ = 118, VIQ = 122, PIQ = 109	Age = 49.8, sex = female, FSIQ = 114, VIQ = 106, PIQ = 121
Similarity^a = 0.70	Similarity^a = 0.30
Eliza thought back to when she was a child growing up on a farm and she didn’t want to be a farmer’s wife like her mother. So she decided she would teach herself to read because at that time women didn’t go to school. She taught herself to read and because she was such a wonderful scholar she became the first woman in her family and in the state to go to college. And she became a very successful English professor instead of a farmer’s wife. The end.	This is rural England and they’re plowing I don’t really know what kind of story to make up about this. The one girl is wanting to go away and study but she’s supposed to help on the farm. But uh she’s going to be allowed to go and study and I don’t know. She’s Marie Curie and she’ll invent radiation. I don’t know.

Example of strong narrative quality in parent control

Example of low quality narrative quality in BAP(+) parent

Age = 42.3, sex = female, FSIQ = 118, VIQ = 122, PIQ = 109

Age = 49.8, sex = female, FSIQ = 114, VIQ = 106, PIQ = 121

Similarity^a = 0.70

Similarity^a = 0.30

Eliza thought back to when she was a child growing up on a farm and she didn’t want to be a farmer’s wife like her mother. So she decided she would teach herself to read because at that time women didn’t go to school. She taught herself to read and because she was such a wonderful scholar she became the first woman in her family and in the state to go to college. And she became a very successful English professor instead of a farmer’s wife. The end.

This is rural England and they’re plowing

I don’t really know what kind of story to make up about this. The one girl is wanting to go away and study but she’s supposed to help on the farm. But uh she’s going to be allowed to go and study and I don’t know.

She’s Marie Curie and she’ll invent radiation. I don’t know.

^aNarrative quality closer to 1 is higher quality