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New 🔥 double empathy paper just dropped (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by e_chao@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world

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From everything I've seen online, "Attraction Through Similarity in Autistic Traits: A Group Communication Study Using the Social Relations Model and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Hyperscanning" is fire. Does anyone have access to the PDF through their institution who would be willing to share? It's not on Sci-Hub yet.

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[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago

I mean, when you're used to having to pretend to not be yourself in order to attract someone, not having to do that is obviously pretty appealing. I haven't dated a neurotypical person in a long time. I refuse to waste all of my energy masking that much anymore.

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