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As a defensively defending autistic, I posit that there isn't a right, empathetic answer to the Sally-Anne test.

Perhaps autistics think highly of Sally's marble-finding abilities. Perhaps auties and aspies, in our constant fretting over reading between the metaphorical lines, imagine that Sally will eventually look in Anne's basket—does it matter when? And perhaps Sally is particularly good at looking, like many with an autie or aspie sensibility, at picking out the details, at recognizing previous marble-hiding patterns.

James C. Wilson (2008), in Weather Reports from the Autism Front, has asserted that autistic empathy isn't a matter of deficit, but one of difference. While autistics may encounter difficulties in "reading" their neurotypical audiences/texts, so too do neurotypicals lack empathetic facility with autistics (124). Similarly, Ralph Savarese has argued that "...'autistic' ought to be reserved for narrow-minded scientists, if not for any neurotypical person empathetically challenged. ...I suggest that most Americans have 'no true concept of, or feeling for, other minds,' and might, thus, themselves be labeled 'autistic'" (xix).

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