How Does Autistic Empathy Work? (Autism, Double Empathy)

When autistic folks respond to the story you just told with a story of their own, how does it make YOU feel? Empathy is a perennial "hot topic" in autism, yet when NT people give examples of autistic folks "lacking empathy", they're often very BAD examples. There's a lot of confusion about how we actually define & describe empathy in the first place, so why are we so quick to pick fault? #EngageAutism #AutismAcceptance #actuallyautistic Support Autistamatic on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/autistamatic 00:00 Intro 01:12 The comment 03:00 Flavours of empathy 04:24 Who's kindest? 05:26 The problem 07:40 Not on the same page 08:45 The TRUTH! 10:16 A lot in common 12:18 Autistic empathy in action 14:12 Double empathy 15:28 What people want 16:13 Who's the A-hole 17:32 Conclusion NeurodiverJENNt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NeurodiverJENNt/ Find more at https://www.autistamatic.com/ Autistamatic Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/autistamatic Autistic Primer (playlist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XdtuFETrvU&list=PL3R_uyUBjsuCX4FellgOexpKXdyIv9j3q&pp=gAQBiAQB Made with Shotcut, open source video editing software https://shotcut.org/ Images, stock video, sound effects and music not created by the channel are either used under license from their appointed vendors, have been obtained from YouTube creator resources or from the following PD/CC sources: https://www.rgbstock.com/​​ https://www.videvo.net/​​ (author - Videvo) https://pixabay.com/​​ https://filmmusic.io/​​ https://freesound.org/​​ Every effort has been made to ensure that copyrights are respected and that material used is in the public domain. Where copyrighted material is used it is under the terms of "fair use" for educational and/or critical purposes. All copyrights remain the property of their respective owners.