Melissa Neff
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1,584 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
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empathy at all.
In fact, they are incredibly empathic.
It just doesn't always come through on their face.
Okay.
Right.
And they can't always read it on other people's faces.
So with girls, a lot of times you'll have girls who are very quiet and they don't outwardly show that they're distressed.
And then you might find their journal and they're suicidal and depressed because nobody likes them.
Or I will also see girls that have really exaggerated facial expressions.
That look like they're on a soap opera or something.
Like, you know, when they cry, they're sobbing and they, and then they look at you to make sure that you're getting that they're sad.
So I think there's in autism, I think there's often a disconnect between what you're actually feeling on the inside with autism and what you're able to show on the outside.
And so to the observer, it almost kind of looks fake or exaggerated.
And that's a lot of what I have to work with parents.
on is that no, these are actual
These are actual symptoms in your child.
And just because they sort of come out looking a little fake, it doesn't mean they don't experience them as really intense.
Yeah.
And I would say too, with girls, their obsessive interests tend to be within sort of normal range for what you would expect girls to like.
So girls on a spectrum typically tend to like things like horses, animals.
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