{"id":2691,"date":"2013-12-21T02:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2013-12-21T02:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:41:48","slug":"the-boy-whose-brain-could-unlock-autism-matter-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/21\/the-boy-whose-brain-could-unlock-autism-matter-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The boy whose brain could unlock autism \u2014 Matter \u2014 Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

This apparent social indifference was viewed as central to the condition. Unfortunately, the theory also seemed to imply that autistic people are uncaring because they don\u2019t easily recognize that other people exist as intentional agents who can be loved, thwarted or hurt. But while the Sally-Anne experiment shows that autistic people have difficulty knowing that other people have different perspectives\u2014what researchers call cognitive empathy or \u201ctheory of mind\u201d\u2014it doesn\u2019t show that they don\u2019t care when someone is hurt or feeling pain, whether emotional or physical. In terms of caring\u2014technically called affective empathy\u2014autistic people aren\u2019t necessarily impaired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, however, the two different kinds of empathy are combined in one English word. And so, since the 1980s, this idea that autistic people \u201clack empathy\u201d has taken hold.<\/p>\n

via The boy whose brain could unlock autism \u2014 Matter \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This apparent social indifference was viewed as central to the condition. Unfortunately, the theory also seemed to imply that autistic people are uncaring because they don\u2019t easily recognize that other people exist as intentional agents who can be loved, thwarted or hurt. But while the Sally-Anne experiment shows that autistic people have difficulty knowing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}