Mind-blindness

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Mind-blindness, mindblindness or mind blindness is a widely disputed theory initially proposed in 1990 that claims that all autistic people have a lack or developmental delay of theory of mind (ToM), meaning they are less able to attribute mental states to others. According to the theory, a lack of ToM is considered equivalent to a lack of both cognitive and affective empathy. In the context of the theory, mind-blindness implies being unable to predict behavior and attribute mental states including beliefs, desires, emotions, or intentions of other people. The mind-blindness theory asserts that children who delay in this development will often develop autism. One of the main proponents of mind-blindness was Simon Baron-Cohen, who later pioneered empathising–systemising theory. Over the years, the mind-blindness hypothesis has faced many criticisms from the scientific community due to inconclusive empirical evidence, mixed findings with different ToM tasks, repetitive failed replications...

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