Tag: Empathy

ello, and welcome back to The Autistic Writer. One of the most damaging myths about autism is that autistic people lack empathy. Here, I will be unpicking that myth.

Hello, and welcome back to The Autistic Writer. There are many inaccurate and harmful myths about autism and autistic people. Some of them spring from research and publications in the fields of psychology and psychiatry that have since been strongly disputed by professionals in the field. The Theory of Mind (ToM) deficit model of autism…