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Double empathy
The bidirectional empathy problem, extended to work and code.
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The double-empathy problem lands in your pull requests
Autistic communication friction isn't a last-mile social-skills gap. Milton's double empathy problem reframes it as bidirectional — both neurotypes fail to read each other — and the fix is protocol design, not coaching the autistic person to mask.
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Race × autism: the diagnosis gap as a gatekeeping problem
Black and Brown autistic children are diagnosed later, misdiagnosed more often, and under-identified by the systems that gate access to support. A diagnosis is a credential — unequally issued — and the diagnosis gap is a credentialing-distribution problem, not a neutral clinical fact.