Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Aspergers or Not - Are We Really So Different?

Autism - Signs, Symptoms, Treatments, Resources, Support for Autism

Recently, the Autism at About.com Facebook community has been chatting about the topic of empathy.  Do people with autism really have less empathy than people withOUT autism?

It's a topic I'm presently researching for an article - and a question that is hard to answer.  After all, what is empathy really: an ability to actually feel what others feel?  An ability to sympathize strongly enough with others that you reach out to help?  Or - perhaps - an ability to know that you SHOULD feel for and with others, combined with the ability to express those appropriate feelings verbally?

...

Read Full Post

Sent with Reeder

Sent from my iPad

No comments:

Post a Comment