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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

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

So great to have found the brilliant @Lupicinio here! Beautiful human, friend, mentor and a huge inspiration for my *younger* psych grad self to get into critical theory and pursue a PhD in critical social psychology – hope these communities will keep growing on the #Fediverse

Hey @socialpsych and @sociology folks – any recommendations of fellow critical social scientists for us to connect with here?

#CriticalTheory #CriticalSocialPsychology #CriticalPsychology #CriticalSociology

Maybe it's time to update my #introduction after more than four years on #Mastodon?

I'm a #PhD of #Psychology and #GenderStudies. I work as a school #psychologist and love my work; the academic world wasn't for me.

My main areas are #GroupPsychology, #SocialPsychology and #CriticalPsychology. Also interested in #FeministPsychology, #SocioculturalPsychology, #PhilosophyOfMind and #Phenomenology.

I blog (in #Swedish) at https://fenomenologen.se.

I'm a #PhD of #Psychology and work #psychologist at the Swedish National Employment Service. I have a keen interest in #PhilosophyOfPsychology, #PhilosophyOfMind, #CriticalPsychology, #HistoryOfPsychology and #Phenomenology. I blog (in #Swedish) at https://fenomenologen.se. Is that enough as an #introduction?