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Chapter 4: Autism and the ‘Double Empathy Problem’ IN Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Empathy, Imagination and Othering

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Damian Milton, Krysia Waldock, Nathan Keates (2023)

This chapter argues that the framing of Autism and empathy is deeply problematic. Drawing on both personal experience of being Autistic and as a parent to an Autistic child as well as theory and interdisciplinary research. Definitions of empathy relate to a breadth of cognitive and subjective states. In contrast to psychopathy and narcissism, which are often characterised as resulting from deficits in affective empathy. Autism has been linked to a deficit in cognitive empathy. Milton, Waldock and Keates suggest that the power relationships that can form between Autistic people and psych-professionals who may see their ‘patients’ as lacking in socialisation, empathy, moral competency, and even full humanity can produce forms of psycho-emotional disablement, constraining not only what people can do but also what they can be and become.

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Chapter 4: Autism and the ‘Double Empathy Problem’ IN Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Empathy, Imagination and Othering

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Damian Milton, Krysia Waldock, Nathan Keates (2023)

This chapter argues that the framing of Autism and empathy is deeply problematic. Drawing on both personal experience of being Autistic and as a parent to an Autistic child as well as theory and interdisciplinary research. Definitions of empathy relate to a breadth of cognitive and subjective states. In contrast to psychopathy and narcissism, which are often characterised as resulting from deficits in affective empathy. Autism has been linked to a deficit in cognitive empathy. Milton, Waldock and Keates suggest that the power relationships that can form between Autistic people and psych-professionals who may see their ‘patients’ as lacking in socialisation, empathy, moral competency, and even full humanity can produce forms of psycho-emotional disablement, constraining not only what people can do but also what they can be and become.

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