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.
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.
Autistics still have empathy…
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.
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.