Francesca Happé on autism
The Life Scientific
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What Is the Theory of Mind?
Women and some men on the spectrum tell us that they work terribly hard to wear a neura typical and non artis mask. So this womanthat you met in in the playground who was standing too close to you, what was she trying to doi? Was that sort of an artistic trait, or was she somehow trying to over compensate, do the opposite of what she'd want to do? So that's interesting. I think one of the most important things about the theory of mind account was that it made clear that artism wasn't just a lack of social interest. It wasn't that artistic people found every aspect of social life difficult. Artistic people have emotional empathy. They are attached
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