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Autism: The following quote is from the article:

"Neuropsychology Two major categories of cognitive theories have been proposed about the links between autistic brains and behavior.

The first category focuses on deficits in social cognition. Simon Baron-Cohen's empathizing–systemizing theory postulates that autistic individuals can systemize—that is, they can develop internal rules of operation to handle events inside the brain—but are less effective at empathizing by handling events generated by other agents. An extension, the extreme male brain theory, hypothesizes that autism is an extreme case of the male brain, defined psychometrically as individuals in whom systemizing is better than empathizing.[97]"

As a person who is Autistic I can assure you that Autistics HAVE empathy. Articles from neurotypical persons about autism are suspect because neurotypicals have blind spots when it comes to understanding the Autistic brain the same way that Autistics have blind sports regarding the neurotypical brain - we don't understand the social cues, small talk and little white lies that are common place to neurotypicals. Therefore, how can a neurotypical researcher looking at us from the outside possibly understand how our brains work? Conversations with us are essential to gaining any kind of understanding of what goes on in our heads. Unfortunately, that is not the scientific method.

I strongly recommend that another side of the picture be presented, which is that not only do we have empathy, we probably have TOO MUCH empathy. Please review the following article and its citations:

Key citations from this article follow:

GatorDuck (talk) 03:50, 9 March 2015 (UTC)James Fleming 03/08/2015 8:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time