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Octavia Butler's hyperempathy, which Sami Schalk reads as a disability with no real-world equivalent, and the Autistic people who have been describing it under the same name for years.
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Octavia Butler's hyperempathy, which Sami Schalk reads as a disability with no real-world equivalent, and the Autistic people who have been describing it under the same name for years.
Helen Edgar – Autistic Realms / More Realms June 2026 “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person (1961) “Becoming is not…