It was observed that girls with ASD interacted differently with their interests than boys with ASD or girls without ASD, with a notable amount fixating on fiction, dolls, and animals. These fixations usually were atypically strong, for example wanting to contact authors and write with no intention of making it a career or using it for school, animal fixations extending to wanting to be that animal or adopt mannerisms, and inserting one-self into the dolls' world instead of playing with others or just having the dolls play with each other.