How would others on the spectrum answer the following:

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I love this answer. (No pun intended) Love is developed during or after getting to know someone and comes with the desire to become closer, where prejudice is formed before getting to know someone and often used to avoid it.

I would have said IDK. The classic answer "hate" I don't agree with because it's a cover emotion, like any form of anger. "Indifference" or "apathy" don't work for me either. Apathy/indifference is really an opposite to emotion in general. They are a lack of feeling and while yes, love is the presence of a feeling, it doesn't really perform as an opposite to the specific emotion.

In high-school we were told that the opposite of love is apathy because love is a very strong emotion & apathy is no emotion. I was also told that apathy is also the opposite of hate. I don't understand how worlds with very different meanings can have the same opposite.

^ well, hate is a very strong emotion too.

let's see...love backwards is evol


evol.......e v o l....e v o l

almost sounds like evil....

^ or possibly slang for evolve?

Seeing it that way, it would be more accurate to say that apathy is the opposite of any strong emotion, for instance love, hate, rage, elation, etc.

I still think hate and love are more correct opposites though as love (among other things) means caring deeply, wanting only the best for someone and be afraid of bad things happening to them, feeling warmth when thinking of them and miss them when they're not around, while hate (among other things) means having a very strong negative reaction to someone, possibly wanting everything bad for them and feel schadenfreude when things go wrong for them, feel like everything tightens and knots up inside when thinking of them and enjoy not having them around.
They are true opposites, while apathy and indifference are just the opposites of having strong emotions, be it negative or positive.

Fear. You cannot love and fear somebody (or something) at the same time.

Something that is not overrated.

that's what i was thinking at first, really.



i would say that apathy is more strongly contrasted to emotions that lead to physical outbursts and violence, such as rage. overwhelming sadness is a very strong emotion indeed, but IMO it is more similar to apathy in that both emotions may cause one to not want to do anything.

hate and love are more traditional opposites, yes. though it might just come down to what aspects of those emotions are worth considering when you compare and contrast them.

I agree, Kip. Another emotion that is very opposite of apathy is the overwhelming joy that made one skip when one was little.