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K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:16 UTC

Autistic people are famously fond of logic, and data.

We’ve also repeatedly ‘failed’ in tests designed to evaluate our empathy.

Tests which I found more interesting as a ‘spot the assumption’ exercise than serious research – or at least, serious research into what the studies professed to be about.

(I wrote a thread on it, "Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?", link: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116070156336606549)

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#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AutismResearch #Empathy #AutisticThinking #CriticalPsychology #Logic #Reasoning #Neurodiversity #DoubleEmpathy

#doubleempathy #neurodiversity #reasoning #logic #criticalpsychology #autisticthinking

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:16 UTC

Autistic people are famously fond of logic, and data.

We’ve also repeatedly ‘failed’ in tests designed to evaluate our empathy.

Tests which I found more interesting as a ‘spot the assumption’ exercise than serious research – or at least, serious research into what the studies professed to be about.

(I wrote a thread on it, "Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?", link: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116070156336606549)

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#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AutismResearch #Empathy #AutisticThinking #CriticalPsychology #Logic #Reasoning #Neurodiversity #DoubleEmpathy

#doubleempathy #neurodiversity #reasoning #logic #criticalpsychology #autisticthinking

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:16 UTC

Autistic people are famously fond of logic, and data.

We’ve also repeatedly ‘failed’ in tests designed to evaluate our empathy.

Tests which I found more interesting as a ‘spot the assumption’ exercise than serious research – or at least, serious research into what the studies professed to be about.

(I wrote a thread on it, "Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?", link: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116070156336606549)

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#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AutismResearch #Empathy #AutisticThinking #CriticalPsychology #Logic #Reasoning #Neurodiversity #DoubleEmpathy

#doubleempathy #neurodiversity #reasoning #logic #criticalpsychology #autisticthinking

K. J. Elphinstone @KatyElphinstone · 2026-09-19 · 09:16 UTC

Autistic people are famously fond of logic, and data.

We’ve also repeatedly ‘failed’ in tests designed to evaluate our empathy.

Tests which I found more interesting as a ‘spot the assumption’ exercise than serious research – or at least, serious research into what the studies professed to be about.

(I wrote a thread on it, "Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?", link: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116070156336606549)

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AutismResearch #Empathy #AutisticThinking #CriticalPsychology #Logic #Reasoning #Neurodiversity #DoubleEmpathy

#doubleempathy #neurodiversity #reasoning #logic #criticalpsychology #autisticthinking

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:16 UTC

Autistic people are famously fond of logic, and data.

We’ve also repeatedly ‘failed’ in tests designed to evaluate our empathy.

Tests which I found more interesting as a ‘spot the assumption’ exercise than serious research – or at least, serious research into what the studies professed to be about.

(I wrote a thread on it, "Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?", link: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116070156336606549)

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AutismResearch #Empathy #AutisticThinking #CriticalPsychology #Logic #Reasoning #Neurodiversity #DoubleEmpathy

#doubleempathy #neurodiversity #reasoning #logic #criticalpsychology #autisticthinking

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:12 UTC

Is empathy a less reliable basis for morality than people tend to assume?

A thread on empathy, morality, and autistic reasoning ♾️

Empathy works a bit like a spotlight. In its traditional sense, it often illuminates only a certain bit of the landscape (the bit that’s in front of us, or that we choose to see) but not all of it.

That's a problem if we confuse that with morality, or 'goodness'.

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#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autism #Empathy #Morality #SocialJustice #CriticalPsychology #AutismResearch

#autismresearch #criticalpsychology #socialjustice #morality #empathy #autism

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:12 UTC

Is empathy a less reliable basis for morality than people tend to assume?

A thread on empathy, morality, and autistic reasoning ♾️

Empathy works a bit like a spotlight. In its traditional sense, it often illuminates only a certain bit of the landscape (the bit that’s in front of us, or that we choose to see) but not all of it.

That's a problem if we confuse that with morality, or 'goodness'.

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autism #Empathy #Morality #SocialJustice #CriticalPsychology #AutismResearch

#autismresearch #criticalpsychology #socialjustice #morality #empathy #autism

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:12 UTC

Is empathy a less reliable basis for morality than people tend to assume?

A thread on empathy, morality, and autistic reasoning ♾️

Empathy works a bit like a spotlight. In its traditional sense, it often illuminates only a certain bit of the landscape (the bit that’s in front of us, or that we choose to see) but not all of it.

That's a problem if we confuse that with morality, or 'goodness'.

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autism #Empathy #Morality #SocialJustice #CriticalPsychology #AutismResearch

#autismresearch #criticalpsychology #socialjustice #morality #empathy #autism

K. J. Elphinstone @KatyElphinstone · 2026-09-19 · 09:12 UTC

Is empathy a less reliable basis for morality than people tend to assume?

A thread on empathy, morality, and autistic reasoning ♾️

Empathy works a bit like a spotlight. In its traditional sense, it often illuminates only a certain bit of the landscape (the bit that’s in front of us, or that we choose to see) but not all of it.

That's a problem if we confuse that with morality, or 'goodness'.

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autism #Empathy #Morality #SocialJustice #CriticalPsychology #AutismResearch

#autismresearch #criticalpsychology #socialjustice #morality #empathy #autism

K. J. Elphinstone @[email protected] · 2026-09-19 · 09:12 UTC

Is empathy a less reliable basis for morality than people tend to assume?

A thread on empathy, morality, and autistic reasoning ♾️

Empathy works a bit like a spotlight. In its traditional sense, it often illuminates only a certain bit of the landscape (the bit that’s in front of us, or that we choose to see) but not all of it.

That's a problem if we confuse that with morality, or 'goodness'.

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autism #Empathy #Morality #SocialJustice #CriticalPsychology #AutismResearch