Etymology

double empathy problem

Today it means: The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by autism researcher Damian E. M. Milton in 2012 in a journal article.

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