The Double Empathy Problem and How to Deal With It

If we know that somebody is waiting for us to fail that is going to make us kind of scared and stressed out. This sets up such a dangerous cycle that I try to teach about and help people interrupt in schools all the time. In a world where connection needs are just as life or death to the amygdala in our brain as anything else now the autistic student has essentially caught the fear of the educator. It can become a total house on fire if power holders don't learn how to regulate it.