My Autistic Son Laughs at Sad Movies (It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means)

It’s an unfair misconception that autistic kids don’t feel empathy

Sarah McInnes
Invisible Illness
Published in
5 min readOct 5, 2021
small boy holding a red, paper heart, standing in front of a white brick wall
Photo by Victoria Borodinova from Pexels

Cinematography and Oxytocin

Do you cry at movies? I do. All the time. Books, too. It doesn’t even matter if I’m in public. I let the tears fall.

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Sarah McInnes
Invisible Illness

I write about neurodiversity, education, parenting, creativity, literature, memoir. UNC-CH Grad. Mom to a kid with ASD & ADHD https://linktr.ee/sarahmcinnes