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Research: Non-autistic adults rated autistic children’s empathy lower, especially those with a medical-model view of autism
A new study found that non-autistic adults gave lower empathy ratings to autistic children’s written answers than to non-autistic children’s. The gap was wider among adults whose understanding of autism came from the medical model, which raises questions about how empathy is judged. (AI-written · AI fact-checked.)