People who say autistics have no empathy have no empathy for autistics.

#actuallyautistic

@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.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem

#autism #empathy

What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

Psychology Today