Article Rec: Strategies for Neurotypical People to Develop Empathy for Autistic People

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This Enthusiastic Life posted: Strategies for Neurotypical People to Develop Empathy for Autistic People - The Enthusiastic Life

Recent studies indicate that while autistics may experience and demonstrate empathy in different ways from neurotypicals, they do indeed experience it, sometimes to intense degrees. The debate is well summarized here. Throughout this discussion, I have observed a curious and glaring omission: what about how and whether neurotypicals empathize with autistics?

Well written, you don't need a background in the issues to follow it. I did find it spawning tabs at an alarming rate as I opened the links in it to other articles and more in depth explorations of the topics it touches on.

Heads up for other people who were labeled "twice exceptional" and other people who were the kids this article is encouraging people to empathize with: it brought up a fair amount of emotion for me to be see kids needing helped talked about as hard to empathize with. Seeing things I lived with as long as I can remember being discussed as new concepts for adults is a little bit rage inducing, even if I know I've had to teach them to many adults in my school years. "maybe the skills involved in being good at video games don't actually apply to most homework, maybe it makes no freaking sense for those skills to develop at the same time and pace" is something I heard myself muttering at the screen.

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