Double empathy problem

the limitations of neurodivergent people, that that's, of course, the wrong framing.

And the realization that another explanation that's referred to as the double empathy problem might, in fact, be the way we should be thinking about neurodivergent people and communicating emotional states with themselves, with others, what that all means.

Awesome.

Well, all right.

straw man argument, granted, but I feel like that's, like many other things, those are the expectations that are put on us in the neurodivergent community to say, okay, we have to do things differently.

Right.

What's interesting is there's a sort of a newer perspective in autism research that's called the double empathy problem.

And the basic idea is that communication difficulties between neurodivergent people and neurotypical people are often mutual rather than existing only in autistic people.

So some of the autism researchers almost need to jog across campus out of their lab and over to the sociology department, because the sociology department is where a lot of the most interesting research is happening, in my opinion, because people like Noah Sasson and Katherine Crompton They're not trying to figure out what's going on in the brain.

What they're doing is they're looking at how autistic and not autistic people communicate with each other and the double empathy problem, right? Where we don't quite understand each other.

Why? How? And they're looking at how non-autistic people misinterpret and can negatively judge really through these social experiments, negatively judge autistic people.

and how that creates a discriminatory environment towards an autistic person who's looking for a job or trying to get along at school.