Do some aspies have lots of empathy? My seven year old . .

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Sweetleaf
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08 Jul 2014, 12:22 am

I feel sometimes I have too much empathy, but either way its still hard to express it....


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08 Jul 2014, 12:29 am

My empathy is odd and sporradic; I cannot bear to see any animal suffering or in pain, and yet, when presented with a crying person, my first instinct is to run the other way; it makes me extremely uncomfortable and I don't know what to do with it. I have a hard time expressing empathy to humans unless I have had direct experience with the event they are dealing with, otherwise, the best I can offer is lukewarm sympathy, because despite my best efforts, I never know what to say, or how to make my voice sound sympathetic instead of just the same flat monotone it's always at.


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08 Jul 2014, 7:19 am

I'm very empathetic. I've even had two different professional counselors say that I sound like I'm very good with empathising.


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