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Autism magazine

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A post for autistic people but parents and carers might like to read the link too.

The autism issue of New idealist can be found here:

theintelligentreview.com/.../The-Autism-Issue-Digital-Version.pdf

It has some great articles including one challenging Simon Baron Cohen's ideas and is dismissive of the commonly accepted theory that we lack empathy. Great to hear autistic people's voices.

  • The link is on a private site so I can't access it right now, but its good that SBC idea's are being challenged because he is on the outside looking in, and only knows what he and his team can observe or extract.  We don't all lack empathy, some do, but many don't.  It is wrong to pin any trait on all of us, he should know that more than anyone.