Sean C.@autistics #ActuallyAutistic i bring up the issue of double empathy being treated as solely our problem to fix all the time and for that i’m considered the asshole…
…which is why i say #EnoughIsEnough
Josh From re-RIGHT on Instagram: "Nobody ever sat a neurotypical person down and said: ‘You’re not great at understanding autistic people — you should work on that.’ And yet autistic people are reminded of this constantly. 🙃 Researcher Damian Milton asked a genuinely radical question: what if the misunderstanding goes both ways? His research found that autistic people communicate just as well with other autistic people as neurotypicals do with each other. It’s specifically at the crossover — autistic and neurotypical interaction — where things break down. For both sides. He called this the Double Empathy Problem. Which means every miscommunication many of us have blamed ourselves for — the interaction that went wrong, the room we couldn’t read, the person who seemed baffled — wasn’t purely our failure. It was a mismatch. Two different social languages meeting without a shared translator. But only one group is being asked to do all the translating. Next time something goes sideways, try asking: were *both* of us confused? Because if the answer is yes — and it probably is — then the responsibility to meet in the middle belongs to both people. That’s not a small shift. That’s a completely different way of understanding what communication actually is. 💙 #DoubleEmpathyProblem #ActuallyAutistic #NeurodiversityAcceptance #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent"
137 likes, 3 comments - joshfromreright on April 26, 2026: "Nobody ever sat a neurotypical person down and said: ‘You’re not great at understanding autistic people — you should work on that.’ And yet autistic people are reminded of this constantly. 🙃 Researcher Damian Milton asked a genuinely radical question: what if the misunderstanding goes both ways? His research found that autistic people communicate just as well with other autistic people as neurotypicals do with each other. It’s specifically at the crossover — autistic and neurotypical interaction — where things break down. For both sides. He called this the Double Empathy Problem. Which means every miscommunication many of us have blamed ourselves for — the interaction that went wrong, the room we couldn’t read, the person who seemed baffled — wasn’t purely our failure. It was a mismatch. Two different social languages meeting without a shared translator. But only one group is being asked to do all the translating. Next time something goes sideways, try asking: were *both* of us confused? Because if the answer is yes — and it probably is — then the responsibility to meet in the middle belongs to both people. That’s not a small shift. That’s a completely different way of understanding what communication actually is. 💙 #DoubleEmpathyProblem #ActuallyAutistic #NeurodiversityAcceptance #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent".
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