Double Empathy On Stage: Damian Milton’s INSAR 2026 Keynote

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thinkingautismguide.com/2026/04/double-empathy-on-stage-damian-miltons-insar-2026-keynote.html

Double Empathy On Stage: Damien Milton’s INSAR 2026 Keynote

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thinkingautismguide.com/2026/04/double-empathy-on-stage-damien-miltons-insar-2026-keynote.html

Protocol variation does not mean either is malformed, only varied.

In systems theory, an interface must be developed to translate between the two.

In category theory, a functor must be developed to map between two objects.

In society, the autistic person is expected to adapt.

#doubleempathy #autism #interface

Is empathy political?
A thread on autistic empathy.

A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.

I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:

A thread 🧵

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#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind

Is empathy political?

An article on autistic empathy.

#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #Neurodiversity #Empathy #DoubleEmpathy

https://www.neurofabulous.org.uk/autistic-empathy.html

Repeat after me

Autism is not possession

Your child was not stolen from you

They are not contaminated

They are different. Their mind works differently than yours. Yes it still works. Yes it is weird. Yes it is wonderful.

Your child is not a witch. Burning their insides with proverbial fire and literal poison will not back the thing that was stolen from you.

The only thing that has been stolen from you was your humanity, the moment you looked upon your own child as anything other than exactly who they were supposed to be

And that is lost from you forever

We exist because we have to. We are the optimal solution to a problem most of you don't even see.

You can't from way up there. The solution stolen by the same reactive contagion that caused you to treat your child as a symptom to be corrected instead of a person to be understood

You see labels

We see effects

People used to be embarrassed to be this ignorant.

Now they're celebrated

#autism #disgust #doubleempathy #singularignorance

A word about communication differences in autistic folks.

Non-autistic people: That confusion, frustration, surprise at sudden unexpected turns, and impatience that you experience constantly when listening to an autistic person about an important matter? Yeah, we feel *exactly* the same way about what you're saying, for *exactly* the same reasons. Only for us, we have to deal with that in almost every single person we meet, not just one. It's so pervasive and familiar to us that we invented a term for it, now confirmed by supporting research: the double empathy problem.

So before you cut one of us off or otherwise stop listening, please take a minute to consider what it's like to live on the business end of that negative behavior you're about to display. Imagine putting up with that from the majority of people you interact with. And maybe try to listen a little more attentively. Because whether people listen or not, we do have things we need to say.

#ActuallyAutistic
#DoubleEmpathy
@actuallyautistic