Why High Masking Autistics are Misunderstood: Double Empathy and Autism

Many autistic people will tell you: to be autistic is to be frequently misunderstood by everyone else. But why does this happen? Is it the autistic person's fault - or is it related to Double Empathy? Learn more about this concept and why everyone should learn more about it.

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📌 Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:59 Examples of non-autistic social norm
4:02 What is Double Empathy?
6:24 Studies that support the theory of Double Empathy
7:51 4 reasons why this should matter to everyone
11:12 Ways to improve communication for both autistic and non-autistic people
14:57 Outro


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📚 RESEARCH:
1. The 'double empathy problem' (2012)
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
2. Non-autistic observers both detect and demonstrate the double empathy problem when evaluating interactions between autistic and non-autistic adults (2023)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub...
3. Do you feel me? Autism, empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem (2024)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
4. Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32431...
5. Perspective-taking is two-sided (2017)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub...


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