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The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look At The Feminine Experience, Dana Fritz
The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look At The Feminine Experience, Dana Fritz
Dissertations (1934 -)
Western philosophy has asserted that in order to be a person, one must be rational. This idea was not challenged until the nineteenth century. One school to challenge this notion was phenomenology, which asserted that what made one a person was their ability to empathize. While the founder of the school, Edmund Husserl, did not assert that the ability to decipher nonverbal cues was necessary in order to empathize, several of his followers did. This emphasis on deciphering nonverbal cues proved problematic for some populations, especially the Autistic. Autism is a neurological condition which makes it difficult to decipher nonverbal …