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

@KatyElphinstone It is total nonsense - & insulting nonsense - to say that we lack #empathy. I well remember my reaction to hearing the story of two #Palestinian #parents in #Gaza whose infant son had been reduced to dismembered pieces in a plastic bag by #Israeli #bombing. I was reduced to helpless tears. Lack of empathy? I don't think so!
@rmblaber1956 @KatyElphinstone One of my earliest memories is bawling at a tv commercial for starving children in Africa, while everyone around me happily ate chips and dip.