krex wrote:
OK...thanks for explaining. I think they should pick some different words then because when you see lists of aspie traits..this one can not only be missleading, since it is taken out of the context of their particular deffinition of empathy by all the people who quote them, but is slanderous to our true charactors. Lacking empathy is somethig said about sociopaths and I don't care to be identified with that group.
I agree.
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ToM also seems to me to be a bit confusing because I DO know that other people have their own minds/thoughts/beliefs/desires but I just can't figure out what they would be if they are very different from my own so I just have to act as f they were like mine until they verbilize what they are....
IMO, a better term than empathy would be intersubjectivity or, simply, theory of mind.
06 Jun 2008, 8:59 pm
