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Understanding Double Empathy in TGD Autistic Healthcare
The blog discusses healthcare inequities faced by gender diverse autistic adults, emphasizing the Double Empathy Problem. It highlights systemic barriers, biases in healthcare, and the challenges posed by transmedicalism. Recommendations for practitioners include checking biases, using inclusive language, and valuing lived experiences to foster equitable healthcare environments.
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Breaking the Model: On Cisgenderism, Ableism, and Academic Survival
The blog discusses a conversation on The Autism Podcast addressing issues of cisgenderism, ableism, and intersectionality, particularly for trans autistic individuals in healthcare. The author shares experiences about community involvement, the challenges faced by autistic youth, substance use among autistic adults, and the complexities of research within a deficit-oriented psychological field.
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Double Empathy and misgendering
Autistic people must often meet others more than halfway in conversations and social expectations. Social interactions are often dotted with unanswered questions, unknowable facial expressions and nonsensical terminology which we are expected to translate, understand and appropriately respond to within seconds. When things are misinterpreted it is usually seen as the Autistic person’s fault, as…
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Autistic listening: no eye contact please!
