Is "I regret that" an apology?
Actually a good article on how views of #autism are shifting.
"In fact, he said, his own research showed that autistic people tend to differ in cognitive empathy (interpreting facial expressions and language) but not affective empathy (the internal response to others’ feelings). “Once they know that someone is upset, it upsets them and they want to do something about it,” he said. “There’s a kind of myth that autistic people lack empathy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/05/autism-extreme-male-brain-simon-baron-cohen
the GuardianPioneer of ‘extreme male brain’ theory of autism now says phrase unhelpfulExclusive: Prof Simon Baron-Cohen says his language was misunderstood and it is a myth that autistic people lack empathy
