There is a\u00a0stereotype that people with autism lack empathy and are unable to recognize feelings and emotions, but is this\u00a0really true? A group of researchers from the United Kingdom\u00a0looked into the overlap between autism and alexithymia, a personality trait defined by having difficulty understanding feelings and\/or identifying one\u2019s own emotions. They had four groups of individuals (with alexithymia, with autism, with both conditions, and with neither conditions) on an emotion recognition test. Results found that only alexithymia is associated with problems in emotion recognition, but not autism.<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0the full article\u00a0in\u00a0Scientific American here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a\u00a0stereotype that people with autism lack empathy and are unable to recognize feelings and emotions, but is this\u00a0really true? A group of researchers from the United Kingdom\u00a0looked into the overlap between autism and alexithymia, a personality trait defined by having difficulty understanding feelings and\/or identifying one\u2019s own emotions. They had four groups of … Continue reading Emotions and Empathy<\/span>