"double empathy problem" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Damian E. M. Milton",
        "in": "2012",
        "nobycat": "1",
        "occ": "autism researcher",
        "w": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by autism researcher Damian E. M. Milton in 2012",
      "name": "coinage"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by autism researcher Damian E. M. Milton in 2012 in a journal article.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "double empathy problem (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Autism",
          "orig": "en:Autism",
          "parents": [
            "Disability",
            "Mental health",
            "Psychology",
            "Health",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Psychology",
          "orig": "en:Psychology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michael James, Forest School and Autism: A Practical Guide, page 37",
          "text": "Autistic people's difficulties with communication combined with the 'double empathy problem' can lead to assumptions being made by staff about the people they are teaching or supporting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Karen Guldberg, Developing Excellence in Autism Practice: Making a Difference in Education, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Rather, such difficulties are reciprocal, so a 'double empathy' problem exists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis, Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have, page 163",
          "text": "In contrast to the old (and disproven) idea of autistic people lacking empathy, the double empathy problem suggests that non-autistic people often lack empathy towards autistic people, and this might be the cause of many difficulties experienced by autistic people.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion."
      ],
      "id": "en-double_empathy_problem-en-noun-ac58N3eb",
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "autistic",
          "autistic"
        ],
        [
          "nonautistic",
          "nonautistic"
        ],
        [
          "cognitive",
          "cognitive"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "double empathy problem"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "double empathy problem"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Damian E. M. Milton",
        "in": "2012",
        "nobycat": "1",
        "occ": "autism researcher",
        "w": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by autism researcher Damian E. M. Milton in 2012",
      "name": "coinage"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by autism researcher Damian E. M. Milton in 2012 in a journal article.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "double empathy problem (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English coinages",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Autism",
        "en:Psychology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michael James, Forest School and Autism: A Practical Guide, page 37",
          "text": "Autistic people's difficulties with communication combined with the 'double empathy problem' can lead to assumptions being made by staff about the people they are teaching or supporting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Karen Guldberg, Developing Excellence in Autism Practice: Making a Difference in Education, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Rather, such difficulties are reciprocal, so a 'double empathy' problem exists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis, Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have, page 163",
          "text": "In contrast to the old (and disproven) idea of autistic people lacking empathy, the double empathy problem suggests that non-autistic people often lack empathy towards autistic people, and this might be the cause of many difficulties experienced by autistic people.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "autistic",
          "autistic"
        ],
        [
          "nonautistic",
          "nonautistic"
        ],
        [
          "cognitive",
          "cognitive"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "double empathy problem"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "double empathy problem"
}