3 dogs in a trenchcoat@slrpnk.nettoADHD@lemmy.world•If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"English
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4 days ago“Not understanding other people’s feelings” is called lacking empathy, which is a common autism symptom. I’m saying this because it seems like you might be confusing “empathy” with caring about people, a misconception which harms people who lack empathy.
One thing I’ve noticed is that people often think it’ll be a lot harder than it actually is. I see it all the time, people talking about how they put off switching to firefox or linux or whatever more private thing because they thought it would be super difficult and then they did it and it was really easy