K. J. Elphinstone on Nostr: A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy. But ...
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
But perhaps what we mostly lack is socially approved ways of expressing fellow-feeling. And this then gets construed as lacking empathy.
#AutisticEmpathy #ActuallyAutistic
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