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Alexius848
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05 Oct 2013, 9:27 pm

PokeManiac wrote:
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I pretty much feel no or little empathy.

When people are hurt, upset or crying, I can do nothing. The strongest feeling I get when someone is crying is awkwardness, and when someone hurt themselves I usually just laugh. My friends have commented on this, and another me and another friend who doesn't feel empathy, but is a NT, have come to the conclusion we're semi-sociopaths.

But now I've discovered that I probably have AS, so I'm not sure whether my lack of empathy is due to AS or something else.


I once thought aspies lacke empathy as I do though apparently most don't.

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The strongest feeling I get when someone is crying is awkwardness, and when someone hurt themselves I usually just laugh.


And just out of interest when you laugh about people getting hurt do you find it funny because I usually find when animals or people get hurt or die I find it funny.

When people cry I also find it awkward and don't care at all how there feeling.

You don't have to answer this if you don't want to i'm just interested

Thanks


Hi, to answer your questions, yes I find it funny if they get hurt or die in a comical way, as long as it doesn't look too gruesome, I'm glad I've met someone with similar empathy levels to me :)

Also when someone is crying or upset, do you feel paralysed and unable to do anything?


I am probably a psychopath since I have no affective empathy towards anyone not even my family and friends, and I also have many other psychopathic traits I've talked with my psychologist about it, there is nothing wrong with being a psychopath or sociopath it's just demonized in the media which is unfair since it isn't our fault and most of us don't hurt or kill anybody.

When someone is crying i genuinely couldn't care less about their feelings but if it's a friend I would try to comfort them because that's the friendly thing to do.