she will instant message people and email them but will not talk to them on the phone. when i ask her she said she sees people as numbers and that when she emails them it is more like she putting information into a search engine that they are not real. in order for them to come real to her she has to see them and that she doesn't like that. she said she doesn't understand them until they start to show emotion. Is this part of her Autism or is it something else.