researchers Coralie Chevalier and Robert Schultz believe that autistic children might not feel as “rewarded” by the act of engaging with others as allistics do, making us less motivated and, over time, less able to see the internal experiences of others. But this also means that when we are motivated, we are quite capable of empathy and do it “unexpectedly” well. Why is that unexpected? Allistics have a very difficult time understanding lived experiences outside of their own. In a more recent study, autistic people were found to have an equal ability to recognize regret and relief in others as
...more
