BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Autism, empathy and psychopaths
Why society must rethink the damaging stereotypes about autistic people and low empathy.
My research and some of my students PhD work was used as part of a World Service news programme on autism and the empathy deficit myth. My research is on Hyper-empathy. #ActuallyAutistic #ChangeTheNarrative
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two men are sitting at a table in front of a neon z sign
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a neon z sign
Woke up this morning feeling great, mental health has been great, have an appointment about my anti-anxiety meds considering coming off them. 4 hours later im in an anxiety spiral 🙃
15.05.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Filming YouTube videos All the advice is around being engaging, using your tone & facial expressions to convey your message. Great so what does an autistic presenter do 🙃 videos on access to health care, the autism empathy narrative & autistic people in the summer all ready to go in the next week
13.05.2025 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just finished the script our first YouTube video that we aim to publish at the end of the week. The focus is on the autism empathy myth. In the video we go over the research around autistic Hyper-empathy and why the empathy deficit narrative is not only wrong but harmful.
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If in doubt be yourself.
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image shows scrabble letters spelling ‘policy’ ‘leadership’ ‘data’ and a bowl of salad over a blurred image of the PAC committee at work
On SNJ Today: @tanialt.bsky.social wonders if it's apathy or boredom that powers the DfE's word salad response to a critical @CommonsPAC report —and is there a new #SEND plan or isn't there? www.specialneedsjungle.com/d... if it's
09.05.2025 18:33 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
You are not too much. You are not too sensitive.
You are exquisitely attuned to a world that often forgets how to listen.
Let today be a gentle reminder: your way of being is not a problem to fix—
it’s a perspective to value.
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #AutismAcceptance #SensoryWisdom
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US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism.
parents I work with have been contacted by their insurers letting them know that they will be complying with the Governments request for information, when parents asked their insurers not to disclose their child's diagnosis they were told that parents cant opt out
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08.05.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working from home with a velcro dog, sometimes I wonder if I'm her emotional support human. We compromised she's allowed to lie there but can't try lick my hand while I type but she lacks self-control, sees hand must lick
08.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
me and my autistic wife sometimes reach a level of relaxed sync that we co-stim, one will start the vocal stim and the other ends it.🥰
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