The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is Experienced Differently
neuroclastic.com
Terra Vance posits that Autistic people experience empathy and emotions differently because the way autistic identity is structured differs from non-autistic people’s identity constructs.

I‘ve not related to something this much in a long time. I‘ve been treated as a traitor for this so often all over my life. I can’t believe that someone actually has a theory about this that is not esoteric in some way.

  • bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Skimming, I’d think autistic communities answer differently because the places aren’t like others first, then because the members aren’t like others. Does the author say what autistic communities they polled?