Enter Damian Milton, an autistic researcher who created his own theory, which is known as the double empathy problem (Milton 2012). He recognized that when you put two autistic people together, autistic people no longer experience the same cognitive empathy difficulties. Autistic people create relationships, socialize, and interact with each other autistically. As it turns out, autistic people understand other autistic people just as well as allistic people understand other allistic people. Autistic people simply have their own way of interacting, relating, and empathizing.
