Is empathy political?
An article on autistic empathy.
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Autistic people have a different way of understanding and engaging with the world.
The DSM describes our interests as 'abnormal in intensity or focus'.
And studies have described a 'weak central coherence' (meaning a tendency to focus on details, rather than the bigger picture - which puzzles me as how, then, are we such good pattern-spotters? Surely that requires ‘seeing the bigger picture’?).
But… what if our 'different ways' in these areas have been chronically misobserved and misread?
A short 🧵
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