Double empathy
The bidirectional empathy problem, extended to work and code.
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Different minds in the age of average
AI is a regression-to-the-mean engine: the more it mediates production, the more output converges on the modal. That makes genuine cognitive difference rarer and more visible — and neurodivergent minds are a large reservoir of it. A descriptive look at what that means, without the superpowers trope.
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The double-empathy problem lands in your pull requests
Autistic communication friction isn't a last-mile social-skills gap. Milton's double empathy problem reframes it as bidirectional — both neurotypes fail to read each other — and the fix is protocol design, not coaching the autistic person to mask.
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Race × autism: the diagnosis gap as a gatekeeping problem
Black and Brown autistic children are diagnosed later, misdiagnosed more often, and under-identified by the systems that gate access to support. A diagnosis is access — unequally gated — and the diagnosis gap is a gatekeeping problem, not a neutral clinical fact.