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As a parent of a child with autism and as a teacher I have a difficulty when others report that students with ASD lack empathy. I try to correct this faulty judgment when I have the opportunity to do so, by explaining that there really is not lack of empathy, nor any absence of the ability to feel this. There may however be a different way of processing or expressing the feeling, and also a challenge with understanding the perspective and therefore the experience of others. This is fundamentally different than the judgment that an individual lacks the capacity for empathy.
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