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Yeah. I sometimes feel like those with ASD seemingly feel that they shouldn’t have to give a crap about others at all, since empathy is hard for them. It’s at
by JohnBooty 3y ago
Yeah. I sometimes feel like those with ASD seemingly feel that they shouldn’t have to give a crap about others at all, since empathy is hard for them.
It’s at least as toxic and harmful as neurotypicals expecting those on the ASD to magically “get it” and confirm to neurotypical expectations.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoAs a parent of two now adult special-needs kids: Most neurotypical people don't really care either and are frequently extremely abusive as a group to anyone different, a la Mean Girls. The best thing I did to prevent my kids from turning into awful people was pulled them out of school so they could not be roundly abused by dozens of people daily and blamed for it because of "being weird." Superficial empathy and actually being good and kind are not the same thing and plenty of people who can perform superficial empathy are horrible people who use their social skills abusively.
- pseudalopex 3y agoEmpathy isn't hard for autistic people. Understanding allistic people is. As it is hard for you to understand them.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
- JohnBooty 3y agoWell, I certainly support the idea of the autistic as differently-abled rather than fundamentally broken, and I think there's just a shortage of empathy in general.