How Does Autistic Empathy Work? (Autism, Double Empathy)

When autistic folks respond to the story you just told with a story of their own, how does it make YOU feel? Empathy is a perennial "hot topic" in autism, yet when NT people give examples of autistic folks "lacking empathy", they're often very BAD examples. There's a lot of confusion about how we actually define & describe empathy in the first place, so why are we so quick to pick fault?
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00:00 Intro
01:12 The comment
03:00 Flavours of empathy
04:24 Who's kindest?
05:26 The problem
07:40 Not on the same page
08:45 The TRUTH!
10:16 A lot in common
12:18 Autistic empathy in action
14:12 Double empathy
15:28 What people want
16:13 Who's the A-hole
17:32 Conclusion

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