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Neurotypicals can't read autistic empathy. Autistic people don't lack empathy. We just don't perform empathy the way neurotypicals expect us to, and then they decide we don't have any at all. This is called the double empathy problem, a mutual misunderstanding between autistic and non-autistic people, not a one-sided deficit. Autistic people often have high emotional empathy, feeling others' emotions intensely, but struggle with cognitive empathy, reading neurotypical facial expressions, tone... Facial Expressions, One Sided, No Way, Reading, Feelings
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Neurotypicals can't read autistic empathy. Autistic people don't lack empathy. We just don't perform empathy the way neurotypicals expect us to, and then they decide we don't have any at all. This is called the double empathy problem, a mutual misunderstanding between autistic and non-autistic people, not a one-sided deficit. Autistic people often have high emotional empathy, feeling others' emotions intensely, but struggle with cognitive empathy, reading neurotypical facial...
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