Rachael Cheang

It’s Autism acceptance month! 🌼 If you indetify as an autistic person and would like to take part in my study or know someone who might be interested, please get in contact with me 🧐 🙏 my research is looking at how we can reduce mental health difficulties in autistic people 🩷

Please share

If you are an autistic adult and would be willing to take part in a study? Please get in contact r.cheang@pgr.reading.ac.uk #Autism

Presented my research poster today at the university conference and won 1st prize 🙌 thank you to all those who are supporting my research, especially my wonderful husband and my amazing supervisor Ignazio Puzzo 🙏 I really hope it can make a difference to Autistic people’s lives

@journalautism Thank you for publishing my research, and to all those who have contributed @ipuzzo1 @aifbw May this be of benefit to the many autistic people struggling to be heard 🙏

@lifeoflottie @3dancingfeet Hi Charlotte, I’m the author and autistic, I did this research to prove what autistic people already know, but have not been heard. Some people just won’t listen unless they have ‘scientific evidence’ this gives those people what they need to finally hear us!

@3dancingfeet They could have just spoke to the autistic community and heard lived experiences, rather than do an experiment. I would say I am more thoughtful about other peoples lived experiences than most neurotypical people I know.

A NEW paper in the journal 'Autism' flips the script on the oft-said stereotype that autistic people have difficulty imagining how others feel. This is why we have *research* - updating our evidence-led approaches in education is essential 😉 #autism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

@Noahsasson @drstevenkapp @HRadders Thank you for liking my study 🙏 Please see the supplementary material for a description on how the task was constructed, we used 2 autistic (1 male, 1 female) and 2 non-autistic (1 male, 1 female) narrators.

@drstevenkapp @HRadders Okay no worries, we can contact them. Very interesting study, just weird that the autistic narrator part isn’t detailed at all

Non-autistic "participants found it significantly harder to track autistic narrators’ emotions compared to non-autistic narrator’s emotions, esp. when viewing clips of narrators feeling happy and sad...findings support the double empathy problem". Free 👇: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

"Future research should concentrate on how to increase empathy among the normative population and reduce the responsibility and burden of autistic people having to fit in." The empathy deficit of neurotypicalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

My heartfelt thanks to my co-authors Dr Ignazio Puzzo @ipuzzo1, Prof Alex Blakemore, Prof Veena Kumari & Maya Skjevling, also to the narrators in the study and everyone who supported me through this journey 🙏

Excited to announce my new paper "Do you feel me? Autism, Empathic Accuracy and the Double Empathy Problem" published in @journalautism. Reshaping how we understand and view autistic people #Autism #Empathy #DoubleEmpathyProblem #Research #Neurodiversity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Overjoyed to have won best presentation award @BSPID conference for my talk on 'Do you feel me? Autism, Empathic Accuracy and the Double Empathy Problem'! Grateful for the opportunity to share my research and spread awareness on this vital subject #autism #empathy #research

Rachael Cheang @Bruneluni talking about empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem in autism at the 14th @BSPID conference @SalfordUni