Does this happen to anyone else here?

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I've noticed that I can feel empathy and actually be interested in socialization in the same way NTs are ( basically be an NT), it's just that my head hurts when I do it, probably because I don't use the right side of my brain very much and I also feel a bit sick. I was just wondering if anyone else can do this

I can feel for others and I do want to socialize and have companionship but I get anxious and uncomfortable-sometimes in the way you describe-I can feel for others I just so not know how to express it and have a difficult time resolving my own emotions at the time of others emotional expression-I get confused when I see another person crying-I have been told I am flat and don't care about others feelings-I do care-sometimes I have to understand my own first when they are churned up.

Yes, me too. There's so much data to process in a social situation, it's overwhelming. I get tired very quickly.

I can socialize quite well, I can small talk and all that, i can act perfectly like an NT and not be stressed out. I just feel fake and I want that to stop, I want to feel emotional. I also do a lot of school play's and i want to feel what the character is feeling, it's just hard. I remember I was 8 and i was crying over a section in Northern lights because I empathized with her. I think I have really really mild AS and I'm wondering if there was any way i could strengthen this ability through meditation or pills or something, cause it would be really useful. I just really wanna connect to the world. btw I did this test online and it said i can read faces better than most, could this be because of therapy. It's really confusing cause I havent shown stereotypical symptoms of AS for a few years, I'm wondering if I was misdiagnosed for ADHD

* the ability of empathy and NT style of thinking

Thanks
About AS traits, i've been told when I was younger that I didn't have eye contact that much and that I got therapy for it, I also used to go up to strangers who were eating something and ask if I could have it and I also didn't consider consequences that much. This was maybe around 5 or 7. I also touched a random woman's boob when I was 8 just to know what one felt like

It's really not enough to tell. I'm not a psychologist or social worker, so I don't know what other kinds of minds might result in that kind of behavior. AS is up on everyone's radar right now & you could be AS, but I think there are other possibilities as well.