what we thought we knew about autism and... whatnot
'For decades, researchers had been measuring the wrong thing. Conflating communication style differences with empathy deficits produced dramatically inflated effect sizes and an illusion of empathy impairment'
@oscarjiminy Excellent! As an Aspergie who talks with strangers greatly, this in part explains that inclination. Autism can help things be seen with less normative bias.
Deep autism can, I believe, result in such deep empathy that the overload can epigenetically disable that empathy as a protection mechanism.
TinDrum
Neil Moffatt