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Also: attempting to model another person's mind works much less well if the other person's mind works much differently.
This is known as the Double Empathy Problem and has been described by Milton (2012) in On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’. Some excerpts:
In a sense it is a 'double problem' as both people experience it, and so it is not a singular problem located in any one person. Rather, it is based in the social interaction between two differently disposed social actors, the disjuncture being more severe for the non-autistic disposition as it is experienced as unusual, while for the ‘autistic person’ it is a common experience.
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I'd volunteer for this too! Especially others were involved in selecting texts and other organisation.