…Words hurt. Stereotypes hurt. But I’m not going to let negativity bring me down. One of my goals is to combat negative stereotypes. Mind-blindness and the lack of empathy are…
…is absolutely major to many of us who are on the spectrum like myself. Autistics are often assumed not to have much empathy, sympathy, or other emotions, when just the…
…seeming to effortlessly stomp to death the most common myth of autism: that autistic people lack empathy. His empathy is an obvious spoiler from page one, not simply for his…
…I grew up. My autistic empathy is tied up in my essence and how I move through the world. As an autistic Black man, I find I have more in…
…myth that autistics don’t feel or show empathy. We can show empathy, it can be just in a different way. We might not detect an emotion based on one’s body…
…in the social realm, due to the double empathy problem, our perseverance easily becomes counterproductive – we try much too hard for much too long. We will never meet the…
…”most people” are. For example, we express empathy differently, but a lack of eye contact or not responding with verbal expressions of emotional solidarity does not mean we lack empathy. …
…see how small other people are. Not that it applies to her personally, but there’s a skill in affecting empathy for the people that don’t matter. But what worries me…
…2018. On the other side of the coin, he released a book called Zero Degrees of Empathy, which claims autistic people lack empathy. In reality, autistic people express empathy in…
…was not perfect, but they were happy, supportive, successful, and in-love. Still, there were times when Iris was taken aback by what seemed a stark lack of empathy on Andrew’s…
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