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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

The questions behind our social interactions

Man and woman talking
‘She mentions differences in male and female communication.’ Photograph: Getty

The unspoken subject of Sarah Miller’s piece is empathy (People who don’t ask me questions drive me crazy. Why are they like that?, 1 May).

In autism studies, researchers have noticed a “double empathy problem”: two people who think and communicate very differently will both struggle to empathise.

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