2026-09-19 09:16 UTC
Autistic people are famously fond of logic, and data.
We’ve also repeatedly ‘failed’ in tests designed to evaluate our empathy.
Tests which I found more interesting as a ‘spot the assumption’ exercise than serious research – or at least, serious research into what the studies professed to be about. I wrote a thread about it: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116070156336606549
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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to 2026-09-19 09:18
It seems autistic people are generally less willing to let the emotional story settle the question. And more inclined to bring in data, nuance, and reasoning. If empathy is usually partial, selective, and easily influenced by familiarity, similarity, emotion, social convention, and who we happen to identify with in a given moment... ...then greater reliance on consistency, evidence, and reasoning is actually going to produce the fairer judgement. ⬇️