Do you mistake other people's feelings for your own?

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YES! As I am getting tot know myself, I'm finally figuring out that I'm hypersensitive to the environment, plants, animals, and especially, people.

I supposedly absorb peoples' emotions like a sponge, just passing on the street will do, and if i'm not careful, i could mistake that bad/good mood for my own.

I'm starting to learn that not everyone is like this. As with my other traits. But need to know that it's somewhat normal too, isn't it?

I have no idea. What kind of question is this? I remember this on the aspie quiz and I could never answer it because I don't understand it. I understand the question but it doesn't make any sense. I rarely feel people's feelings. I am not connected to my own that much, mostly to my thoughts.

I do it too, although I am more aware of it now than I once was. It is like 'catching' a cold or flu and you are infected and sneezing or like being a guitar hung on a wall, every note on the stereo making the strings resound with 'empathy' I thrumm to what ever the vibe in the room is. I recognize the difference between how I think and how other's think, now, though and can shield myself from most seepage and leakage from people that have no idea they are radioactive with emotion..