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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
@thinkingautism.com

Communication between autistics and non-autistics goes both ways: People who are not autistic also have trouble figuring out what autistic people are thinking and feeling! It is not just autistic people who struggle. This is called the "Double Empathy Problem": kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

kids.frontiersin.orgDouble Empathy: Why Autistic People Are Often MisunderstoodAutism affects how someone makes sense of the world around them. About 1–2% of people are autistic. You might have an autistic classmate or family member, or maybe you are autistic. Autistic people mi...

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Paul Charters
@pdcharters.bsky.social

In my experience problems often happens because NT people are so used to interpreting what other NT people are saying by interpolating all the various social cues, they get confused and angry when people ask clearly and directly for what they want, or how they want to be treated.