Video version: How some Autistics get by without empathy.
Happy Friday!
Here is the video version of my latest Substack piece, How Some Autistics Get by Without Empathy. In this video I read the piece aloud and discuss a ton of related issues with the live chat on Twitch.
Some bonus topics we touched on in the discussion: the ultimate unknowability of any other person’s mental and emotional state, whether it is ever truly possible to have “empathy” given how biased the process of reading others’ emotions always is, the pointlessness of organizing one’s politics around morality when class consciousness and solidarity work so much better, and the etiquette of asking a person in crisis to tell you if they need anything:
Read the full piece for free here:
Empathy is Overrated:
Ismatu Gwendolyn’s When I Say I Do Not Care for Morality: https://www.threadings.io/when-i-say-i-do-not-care-for-morality/
Originally streamed live at Twitch.tv/drdevonprice