double empathy problem

Emotional Ignorance: Lost and Found in the Science of Emotion

by Dean Burnett  · 10 Jan 2023  · 536pp  · 126,051 words

problem. If you’re not empathising with someone correctly, it’ll hamper your ability to connect and communicate. A striking example of this is the ‘double empathy’ problem, which can happen when an autistic person interacts with a neurotypical individual.96 Here, the differing workings of autistic and neurotypical brains can mean that

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involved in the interaction are perhaps too heavily reliant on personal, subjective experiences to make sense of what the other one is doing. Hence, the double empathy problem. And this leads to one final, somewhat unsettling issue. Even if we leave aside our own emotions, the wider situation, and our flawed cognitive assessments

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idealized images of one’s spouse’, Human Relations, 1976, 29(8): pp. 751–761. 96 Milton, D.E., ‘On the ontological status of autism: the “double empathy problem”’, Disability & Society, 2012, 27(6): pp. 883–887. 97 De Waal, ‘Putting the altruism back into altruism’. 98 Cikara, M., et al., ‘Their pain gives

Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity With a Neurodiverse Workforce

by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith  · 2 Aug 2021  · 424pp  · 114,820 words

and talents. Ensure your website is accessible and your application forms are too. Notes 1 Milton, D (2012) On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’, Disability & Society, https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62639/ (archived at https://perma.cc/M6AX-GLNE) 2 Elder Robison, J (2007) Look Me in the Eye

Monotropism: A Unified Theory of Autism

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. (2014). Going with the flow: reconsidering ‘repetitive behaviour’ through the concept of ‘flow states’. Milton, D. E. (2012). On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’. Disability & Society , 27 (6), 883–887. Murray, D., Lesser, M., & Lawson, W. (2005). Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism. Autism , 9 (2), 139