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> the actual issue is disordered expectations from the other party. There is something called "double empathy problem", referring to the idea that there is a m
by roywiggins 3y ago
> the actual issue is disordered expectations from the other party.
There is something called "double empathy problem", referring to the idea that there is a mutual difficulty communicating across neurotypes. Neurotypical people struggle to understand autistic people because of a sort of "language barrier" even without a deficit in neurodivergent communication skills per se.
After all, if neurotypical people are universally great communicators, they would be better at communicating with autistic people than autistic people are, but that's not how it works at all.
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/double-empathy-explained/ https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/double-empathy-explained/
- yterdy 3y agoHere is me encountering the pitfalls of speculation as a layman: the phenomenon I stumbled upon is already well-documented. Thank you for the link and explanation.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoIt wasn't well-documented until recently: afaik, it's largely due to Dr Damian Milton that academia takes this idea seriously. Most academic research about abnormal people is just the rampant pseudoscientific speculation of a respected academic, which has become Accepted Truth because it's published in a serious scientific journal. This has been getting better over the past decade: I think increased access to science is making it easier for the subjects to learn about the "research" and say "hang on, this is nonsense". On the flipside, though, bigots have increasingly been picking the worst theories from the literature and using them as an excuse to do bigoted stuff. (e.g. you still see lots of people claiming that autistic people "have no theory of mind", because they don't understand that ethics are suspended when nobody's looking)