The Double Empathy Reader: Exploring Theory, Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Implications for Practice

The Double Empathy Reader brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and practitioners, with first-hand accounts of neurodivergent people, to explore this growing area of study within the neurodiversity movement. This comprehensive handbook explores Damian Milton’s ‘double empathy problem’ : the breakdown in mutual understanding that can happen between any two people yet is more likely to occur when people of differing dispositions attempt to intera...