{"id":25,"date":"2026-02-16T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:49:43","slug":"episode-1-empathy-disability-and-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Episode 1 &#8211; Empathy, Disability, and Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In their first episode, Vince and Vanessa briefly talk about the Double Empathy Problem, the Social Model of Disability, Autistic representation and Autistic spaces. They discuss the importance of Autistic researchers, and talk through some examples of what accommodation can look like, while sharing stories of their personal experiences within these topics. Warning: Somewhere in the middle, with hardly any apology, Vanessa does try to explain a joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-default has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.rss.com\/autistic-small-talk\/2552052?theme=dark&amp;v=2\" title=\"Empathy, Disability, and Representation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"202px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/autistic-small-talk\/2552052\">Empathy, Disability, and Representation<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1\">Show Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Double Empathy Problem<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3-zq8r-igAo?si=65Kc89d7mshLLxK3\">Video of Damian Milton explaining the concept<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/254245139_On_the_ontological_status_of_autism_The_'double_empathy_problem'\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/254245139_On_the_ontological_status_of_autism_The_'double_empathy_problem'\">Milton, Damian. (2012). On the ontological status of autism: The &#8216;double empathy problem&#8217;. <\/a>Disability &amp; Society &#8211; DISABIL SOC. 27. 1-5. 10.1080\/09687599.2012.710008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Autistic Spaces<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/vm.tiktok.com\/ZMksDBeyf\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vm.tiktok.com\/ZMksDBeyf\/\">A TikTok by Pippa Hastings about the experience of being in an autistic space<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their first episode, Vince and Vanessa briefly talk about the Double Empathy Problem, the Social Model of Disability, Autistic representation and Autistic spaces. They discuss the importance of Autistic researchers, and talk through some examples of what accommodation can look like, while sharing stories of their personal experiences within these topics. Warning: Somewhere in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}