Autistic people are often said to lack social skills and have deficits in pragmatic language, leading them to misunderstand non-autistic people. Recent research points to a more complicated picture: the double empathy problem. The double empathy problem is a concept that people of different neurotypes struggle to empathise with each other. It suggests that it's not just autistic people who struggle to understand non-autistic people but also the other way around (Milton, Gurbu