The narrative about autistic people as cold, uncaring, emotionless half-humans incapable of feeling empathy is just another hateful myth.
Says science.
I wonder when mainstream society gets the memo.
"We investigated social discounting in autism and found that autistic adults were more generous than neurotypical participants, which was driven by greater generosity to socially distant others. Crucially, we also investigated framing effects during prosocial decision-making. Autistic participants were less susceptible to whether decisions were framed as causing monetary gains, compared to preventing monetary losses, for the potential recipient. Our results support the view of ‘enhanced rationality’ in autism as participants’ prosocial decisions were less influenced by potential biasing information, such as the closeness of the recipient or how choices were framed. Therefore, the differences seen in autism, as well as posing certain challenges, can also have prosocial consequences."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13623613231190674
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