Map Maker Lens — Social Communication

The social-deficit story has done more damage to autistic people than almost any other idea about them, and this intensive takes it apart. It lays out the double empathy problem, reconsiders the theory-of-mind claim and the language confound that makes it meaningless for a Deaf child, names the cost of masking, and reframes support around authentic connection rather than trained performance. For clinicians, educators, and teams — and anyone who wants a Deaf Autistic child met as themselves.