Neurodivergence › Double empathy problem
Term
Double empathy problem
A proposal that some autistic–non-autistic communication failures arise bidirectionally from mismatched experience and communication rather than from a one-sided deficit alone.
Context
Evidence & provenance
Source-backed trail
The project corpus supplies 1 supporting reference for this concept or its surrounding literature. The concise definition above is wiki-authored; consult the cited source directly for study design, population, estimates, and limitations. [1]
Contested / developing
Evidence exists, but stronger versions of the hypothesis remain methodologically contested.
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Further reading
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