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Understanding Empathy and Autism (Expert Article)
Many people believe that autistic individuals lack empathy. This is not true.
The reason this misconception never seems to get discarded may be due, in part, to its deep historical roots.
Early descriptions of autism and autistic individuals, dating as far back as the 1930s, tended to emphasize the social and communication difficulties associated with the condition. This helped foster an assumption that autistic individuals lacked empathy. Even as recently as the early 2000s, research sugge
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Apr 2nd 2025