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How We Understand Autism

How We're Wired

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The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Autism

Being able to imagine what someone else might be thinking, as well as sense others' emotions is called empathy. It's something that many autistic people have difficulty with, and so it's been the focus of research over the years. Dr Florina Uzafowski from Ben Gurion University: "The idea that actually you would predict somebody who's autistic was something that we considered once autistic people didn't have"

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