ADS Rights

Christ, just look at the faint, throwaway praise in this quote from a book titled 'The Science of Evil'; and what place has a discussion of Autism in a book with that title and subject-matter?:

'Whilst even adults with Asperger Syndrome may have difficulties figuring out why someone else's remark was considered funny, or why their own remark was considered rude, or may judge others as liars when they simply are inconsistent in not doing what they said they would do, they may nevertheless have a highly developed emotional empathy, caring about how someone feels and not wanting to hurt them. If they do hurt them it is often unintentional and they feel mortified when it is pointed out, and want to rectify this. In this respect, they do have some of the components of empathy.'

Besides, despite all this, some of the quoted sentences unwittingly imply that there's hardly any difference between neurotypicals and autists regarding empathy.

Jeezo, even in a line where they say something nice about us we're still spoken about like they were doing experiments on chimps. I hate that, it's so prevalent even in better media we are often talked about int hsoe sub human terms and it really aggravates me.
This kind of thing is exactly why I initally developed a lot of internalised abelism during my childhood an teen years became I became very aware that I wasn't going to be treated like some subhuman other until people stopped treating me like the other, and it made me mask like f for many years and then obviiously that dodn't work out because I can't just not be autistic so then I swung hard in the other direction now I'm a big self (and autism) advocate. We really need to normalise autism because  despite what some may think, we are normal, at least as normal as anyone else. 1/50 is an estimate I regularly hear, that's %2 of people, and 2 percent of 8 billion people world wide means we have an estimated autistic global population of 160,000,000 and that is no wayward anomaly.
"Some of the components of empathy" it's insulting, the author should just have the guts to come slap me in the face directly if that's what they think.

Steven said:

Besides, despite all this, some of the quoted sentences unwittingly imply that there's hardly any difference between neurotypicals and autists regarding empathy.

That's because there isn't really a difference Steven, the capacity is there just like in NTs the difference is sometimes the development of it is interupted or slowed by the fact that we aren't as naturally a gregarious bunch, because all empathy is learned through social interaction, even NT babies get taught by their parents by the gradual setting of boundaries to be less selfish and consider others (to overide the first instinct of "me, my needs, my wants, and my feelings only" innate in all infants). In autists part of the reason ours MAY not get fully formed exactly like in an allistic child is because we don't always have the same social experiences or get treated the same by NT adults as our NT peers growing up.
I have a kid who at 9 years old said "you seem sad do you want a cup of tea" before taking it as a mission to try make me one (I had to step in obvs because boiling water is dangerous.) This kid shows all the signs of having inheritted a similar pattern of autism and ADD as myself, and nobody can tell me that we are devoid of empathy.

Jeezo, even in a line where they say something nice about us we're still spoken about like they were doing experiments on chimps. I hate that, it's so prevalent even in better media we are often talked about int hsoe sub human terms and it really aggravates me.
This kind of thing is exactly why I initally developed a lot of internalised abelism during my childhood an teen years became I became very aware that I wasn't going to be treated like some subhuman other until people stopped treating me like the other, and it made me mask like f for many years and then obviiously that dodn't work out because I can't just not be autistic so then I swung hard in the other direction now I'm a big self (and autism) advocate. We really need to normalise autism because  despite what some may think, we are normal, at least as normal as anyone else. 1/50 is an estimate I regularly hear, that's %2 of people, and 2 percent of 8 billion people world wide means we have an estimated autistic global population of 160,000,000 and that is no wayward anomaly.
"Some of the components of empathy" it's insulting, the author should just have the guts to come slap me in the face directly if that's what they think.

Steven said:

Besides, despite all this, some of the quoted sentences unwittingly imply that there's hardly any difference between neurotypicals and autists regarding empathy.

That's because there isn't really a difference Steven, the capacity is there just like in NTs the difference is sometimes the development of it is interupted or slowed by the fact that we aren't as naturally a gregarious bunch, because all empathy is learned through social interaction, even NT babies get taught by their parents by the gradual setting of boundaries to be less selfish and consider others (to overide the first instinct of "me, my needs, my wants, and my feelings only" innate in all infants). In autists part of the reason ours MAY not get fully formed exactly like in an allistic child is because we don't always have the same social experiences or get treated the same by NT adults as our NT peers growing up.
I have a kid who at 9 years old said "you seem sad do you want a cup of tea" before taking it as a mission to try make me one (I had to step in obvs because boiling water is dangerous.) This kid shows all the signs of having inheritted a similar pattern of autism and ADD as myself, and nobody can tell me that we are devoid of empathy.

The default prism - and not only concerning empathy and its supposed near-absence -  conveniently allows them to elevate themselves by standing on our shoulders.