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90| Autism: The Big Picture – A Conversation With Sir Simon Baron-Cohen

Navigating Neuropsychology

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The Empathy Circuit and Autism

The systemizing mechanism evolved in humans 70,000 to 100,000 years ago. It led to this if and then thinking that drove invention and the cognitive revolution. We know empathy has at least two components: cognitive and affective. autistic people struggle with the first kind of empathy but seem to be intact or even above average in Affective empathy.

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