Test - Different types of empathy

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I never saw "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" or "Blade Runner".

Fantasy: 21 Yeah, that's me. I've always had a hard time with that "lack of imagination" theory.
Empathic Concern: 20 I guess I can relate to people who are taken advantage of and unfairly treated. I don't mean that to be quite as pathetic as it sounds, though!
Perspective Taking: 15 This is something I've worked hard on, though. I may not be great at it, but I try.
Personal Distress: 9 I think that this is because I've always tried to be the " cool head" in an emergency; someone needs to be when everyone else around is freaking out. My emotions kind of shut off, my logical brain really kicks in-- could partially be from being a mom, too.

Fantasy: 25
Empathic Concern: 17
Perspective Taking: 12
Personal Distress: 28

Not surprised at all that I scored higher than average on "fantasy" and "personal distress" - I have always had a special bond with fiction, getting highly emotionally involved with it and feeling like the characters were my friends (to the point of actually having them as imaginary friends). I also overreact to everything, and my family always jokes that I would be the absolute worst person to have around in an emergency.

However, I am a bit saddened that I scored low on "empathic concern" and "perspective taking". That probably makes me look like a closed-minded person who doesn't really care about others.

PT = perspective-taking scale 5
FS = fantasy scale 4
EC = empathic concern scale 12
PD = personal distress scale 24

PT and FS being so low isnt surprising, I have trouble imagining things from someone elses perspective, whenever I try to I get all paranoid and I end up twisting everything in my head. I badly wish I had better TOM. My poor TOM plus my paranoia gets me into do much trouble. My EC was higher then I anticipated, I feel for people when I can see there having a hard time as long as I see them as "safe" people. If Im intimidated by them and think they hate me I dont have an ounce of empathy for them. And my PD is very high, no surprise I freak out a lot.

I wish my PD would go down and my PT and FS would come up, my life would be so much better.

Perspective Taking: 16
Empathetic Concern: 26
Fantasy: 21
Personal Distress: 15

For hypothetical situations my perspective taking is good. It's not as good with people who deeply irritate me.

As far as personal distress goes, in a tragedy or extreme emergency situation I can go numb and just work on adrenalin. From experience I don't panic. Then again, I can get worked up into a rage over other things, like injustice, discrimination, abuse, bullying, etc... In general, natural tragedies don't distress me as much as human created tragedies.

Fantasy: 19 (average scores: 15.73 for men; 18.75 for women)
Perspective Taking: 10 (average scores: 16.78 for men; 17.96 for women)
Empathic Concern : 16 (average scores: 19.04 for men; 21.67 for women)
Personal Distress: 19 (average scores: 9.46 for men; 12.28 for women)

While on another Empathy Quotient test, I got 7/80 points, well below average.

I almost gave up on this stupid test. I hate written test like this because I had a hard time separating the categories by the questions. They should have made the questions separate sheets and did 7.

So like this PT:

1-7

Next page FS:

1-7

But noooo instead they had to make this diffcult. I had to bold and highlight to be able to separate them out.

Anyway my results:

PT= 12
PD= 16
FS= 31
EC= 10

I'm a fan of the Voight-Kampff test too.

It's quite accurate in determining the empathetic state of a genuine human.

I'm apparently an android.

I found it frustrating. I flipped the A and E values so I had to switch it when adding up my score at the end. And i kept loosing track of where I was.I ended up not counting 2 somehow. I got high Fantasy, the Personal distress was around 10 and the others were low

Fantasy: 10 (average scores: 15.73 for men; 18.75 for women)
Perspective Taking: 8 (average scores: 16.78 for men; 17.96 for women)
Empathic Concern : 15 (average scores: 19.04 for men; 21.67 for women)
Personal Distress: 19 (average scores: 9.46 for men; 12.28 for women)

Fantasy: 18 (lower than avg - lower than aspies)
Perspective Taking: 8 (lower than avg - lower than aspies)
Empathic Concern: 12 (lower than avg - lower than aspies)
Personal Distress: 16 (higher than avg - higher than aspies)

Average scores on WP:

Male - Diagnosed
Fantasy: 13,22 (lower)
Perspective Taking: 9 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 11 (lower)
Personal Distress: 15,89 (higher)

Female - Diagnosed
Fantasy: 19,36 (higher)
Perspective Taking: 10,27 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 17,45 (lower)
Personal Distress: 14,73 (higher)

Male - Other Spectrum Disorder
Fantasy: 15 (lower)
Perspective Taking: 10,33 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 21 (higher)
Personal Distress: 14,33 (higher)

Female - Other Spectrum Disorder
Fantasy: 21 (higher)
Perspective Taking: 7,17 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 17,67 (lower)
Personal Distress: 19,5 (higher)

Male - Not Sure If I Have It Or Not
Fantasy: 17 (higher)
Perspective Taking: 9,67 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 12,67 (lower)
Personal Distress: 11,33 (higher)

Female - Not Sure If I Have It Or Not
Fantasy: 17,1 (lower)
Perspective Taking: 7,7 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 11,5 (lower)
Personal Distress: 14,8 (higher)

Male - Asperger's: Undiagnosed
Fantasy: 14,5 (lower)
Perspective Taking: 15,75 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 18,25 (lower)
Personal Distress: 15,75 (higher)

Female - Asperger's: Undiagnosed
Fantasy: 12,67 (lower)
Perspective Taking: 12,67 (lower)
Empathic Concern: 12,67 (lower)
Personal Distress: 14,33 (higher)

FS fantasy..................10 (15.73 for men; 18.75 for women)
EC empathic concern...17 (19.04 for men; 21.67 for women)
PT perspective-taking...19 (16.78 for men; 17.96 for women)
PD personal distress... 17 (9.46 for men; 12.28 for women)

My scores:

PT= 15
FS=21
EC=16
PD= 21

Not sure what this all means. I found the test a little difficult to score.