Elizabeth 
Not my full name, my fun namePeople who say autistics have no empathy have no empathy for autistics.
josh susser@Mepurfield Damian Milton really nailed it when he called it the Double Empathy Problem
Raul Portales@Mepurfield it's not lack of empathy, it's a different way to empathize, which NTs don't share, and therefore don't bother to understand 🤷♀️
@Mepurfield the most empathetic people I know have autism.
They conflate us with ASPD constantly
Eggs now in different baskets.@Mepurfield Just in case any "neurotypical" folk stumble across your post here is a link to a blog post from Psychology Today that I think I found on Mastodon which summarises the issues in a very readable way.
Also the link to the Wikipedia page discussing the double empathy problem in much greater detail.
Dr. Safari Boob@Mepurfield had a psychiatrist tell me autistic people don't have empathy and I promptly fired him ✨
ShadowInTheVoid@DrSafariBoob @Mepurfield Yikes. Did they get their qualifications from a cereal box?
@ShadowInTheVoid @Mepurfield he runs the biggest mental health facility in my city 💔
@DrSafariBoob @Mepurfield That's disturbing
@Mepurfield they mostly don't understand the difference between sympathy and empathy.