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    It is not the case that Requiring intentional object-sharing conflates empathy with the more cognitively demanding capacity of perspective-taking, collapsing a distinction central to developmental psychology.

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    • 1.Object-sharing inherently requires grasping that another person experiences the same object differently—a perspective-taking demand itself.
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    • 2.Developmental evidence shows empathy and perspective-taking emerge interactively, not sequentially, making sharp conceptual boundaries artificial.
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    • 3.The distinction conflates cognitive mechanism (how we understand others) with phenomenology (feeling with them), which are orthogonal dimensions.
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    • 1.Infants display empathic responses (crying when hearing other babies cry) before developing theory of mind, suggesting empathy is developmentally prior.
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    • 2.Empathy involves affective resonance requiring only emotional mirroring; perspective-taking requires metacognitive modeling of another's distinct beliefs.
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    • 3.Collapsing these capacities obscures why individuals with autism can perspective-take well while sometimes struggling with affective empathy.
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