Posts Tagged ‘empathy’

The curious incident of the vote at the book club

The first time I read Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was by force: I was in a graduate seminar on disability studies and the novel was part of the assigned reading. Prior to that point, I’d made the firm decision to refrain from reading it. The novel frequently came [...]


Empathize with this

So, one of the popular medical theories surrounding the “puzzle” of autism spectrum disorders involves theory of mind — or lack thereof. Possessing a theory of mind involves the illusion that one can understand what another human being is thinking or feeling, a neurotypical ESP of sorts. Theory of mind largely concerns empathy, the ability [...]