#AutisticEmpathy - spread the word, ya'll. Just because its why you may do it don't mean it why WE do it.

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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.

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Reason no. 2 "why I like being autistic"

My unusual and intense empathy. 💟

Autistic empathy can be very democratic: for people, animals, and even objects.

It often isn't interested in hierarchies, and doesn't exclude those who don’t appear useful or successful in society.

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A popular theory about autism, 'Theory of mind' has been used to support the idea that autistic people lack empathy...

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Welp, google is now useless for finding any definition of autistic empathy as I understand it.

Got links? #ActuallyAutistic
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Cognitive empathy Vs affective empathy 🤷‍♀️

A note on definitions.

(from "Is empathy political: an article on autistic empathy" at www.neurofabulous.org.uk/autistic-emp...)

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Just in case, an explication - if I turn up in your replies with links, data, or recommendations, it's not because I think you don't know, it's because I'm not making any assumptions about your knowledge.

I know they may LOOK the same, but they aren't.

This is an example of #autisticempathy.

...time that you just no longer have because you've been burning it on limbs in addition to ends for years now... you just need someone to help a minute, then you've got it. You just need a breath... #autisticempathy

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