▲ 690 ▼ Do you agree? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone) submitted 11 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/autism@lemmy.world 80 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (2 children) ...my autistic son... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* Autistics still have empathy... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) And there you have it. Teach your child that they don't have empathy and they will not understand how to be empathetic. Add patriarchy and an unempathetic AMAB asshole can become a whole-ass adult without ever being made to stop and imagine how others feel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago This is thread is 6 months old, and My point is that you can't just tell someone who experiences the world differently, which is pretty much a hallmark of autism, to experience the world as someone else would. It takes a lot of understanding of other people to learn this skill in the first place, and if your kid is lacking this skill, saying "jeez kid, do this thing you're not doing" isn't going to magically remedy the situation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* Autistics still have empathy... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) And there you have it. Teach your child that they don't have empathy and they will not understand how to be empathetic. Add patriarchy and an unempathetic AMAB asshole can become a whole-ass adult without ever being made to stop and imagine how others feel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago This is thread is 6 months old, and My point is that you can't just tell someone who experiences the world differently, which is pretty much a hallmark of autism, to experience the world as someone else would. It takes a lot of understanding of other people to learn this skill in the first place, and if your kid is lacking this skill, saying "jeez kid, do this thing you're not doing" isn't going to magically remedy the situation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago This is thread is 6 months old, and My point is that you can't just tell someone who experiences the world differently, which is pretty much a hallmark of autism, to experience the world as someone else would. It takes a lot of understanding of other people to learn this skill in the first place, and if your kid is lacking this skill, saying "jeez kid, do this thing you're not doing" isn't going to magically remedy the situation. permalink fedilink source parent
