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Autism in India - From Denial to Empathy | Bhismadev Chakrabarti
🎙️ The Coffee House Experience
What is autism, and how do we move from misunderstanding to empathy? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Bhismadev Chakrabarti, a leading neuroscientist specializing in autism and social behavior.
The process of socialization in human beings has us responding to social stimuli and reinforcing those behaviours that are labelled as 'desirable' by our milieu. On the flipside, our species (Homo Sapiens) also abounds in agents who inherently don't find social interactions rewarding, therein upending the antecedents which frame 'social behaviour' for the rest. In other words, the process of mimicry that helps in forming affective social bonds doesn't come as naturally to individuals in the Autism Spectrum. Thus, acceptance and / or em ...