
Part 5: My Personal Journey Through this Empathy Series
This thought experiment has been profound in helping me to understand some of the differences in neurotypical and autistic empathy. I knew already that the
This thought experiment has been profound in helping me to understand some of the differences in neurotypical and autistic empathy. I knew already that the
If you’ve followed this series to date, thank you for your readership. We at the Aspergian appreciate the time you’ve invested to take this perceptive
If you’ve followed this series thus far, thank you for your readership. In order to provide you with context for this article, you will need
A multiple-part series on autism and empathy. An autistic woman and her mother are at odds. The way readers respond is what is remarkable about this series.
A thought experiment in the form of a case study. The results demonstrate that autistic people do empathize differently from neurotypicals.
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In prevailing literature, people on the autism spectrum have all of their traits, their behaviors, and even their very existence pathologized. They are considered to
One of the dominant characterizations of people on the autism spectrum is that they lack empathy or are empathy-disrupted. This is based on the paradigm
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