Do you feel empathy?

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I believe I feel empathy but only if the said situation happened to me also. Other then that if I have never experienced it first hand it is hard for me to feel it and show it. But I do feel sympathy for people.

Not really. I do feel remorse, though.

Usually only with other autistics because they think in much the same manner to how I think. I understand why they get frustrated when they are forced to switch from one task to another and their fixations on things like maps and thermometers etc, the lack of social skills and many speak in the same idiosyncratic way that I speak.

Most people said that I`m empahtic like a NT girl but they don`t know before they know me a couple of days.
They too get confused because I don`t seem like/cannot show it...

I feel empathy for house pets and Routemasters.

Its a mixed bag, sometimes I feel so much empathy for someone its overwhelming, for example an elderly man crying or a humanitarian crisis, but generally I'm not the type to blab at a soppy film. I find it easier if I have experienced a situation myself. On the whole I think I give sound advice, it takes on board all sides and is practical.

I usually show empathy at the right times but sometimes I can appear very inconsiderate, even if I am not trying to be.

I Can show empathy + feel empathy for things worth caring about.

If it was family - 100% empathy.

9/11 - 0%.

Starving Children In Africa - 0%.

Someone I don't know who made the news after being killed - 0%.

Anything outside family and friends I couldn't give a f**k.

And that's my cruelly, honest opinion.

I tend to over-identify with a person's feelings. As far as being able to show the empathy, I either go overboard or remain blank-- I have trouble finding a balance. I voted "a lot."

I can feel empathy for anything and everything, from terrorists to 911, criminals, michael jackson to paris hilton, but since that is not emotionally feasible I usually reserve my feeling for family and close friends.

And yeah, I rarely show it.

That's perfectly normal. You don't know what it's like to be a starving child in Africa and you don't know the people that died on 9/11, but if you did, you'd probably have more empathy for people in similar situations. I'd call you inexperienced in those areas of loss and tragedy long before I'd call you cold-hearted.

Most of the time? No. I want to have more empathy and compassion--it's one of my life goals.

But I do have empathy when I watch movies. I cry a lot during movies--at least powerful ones. I get attached to the characters and when the s**t hits the fan it's very common for me to shed tears.

List of movies that have made me cry the most:

1) Hotel Rwanda.

2) Unleashed.

3) The Fountain.

There are plenty of others that did it, but those were the ones that got the most out of me.

As for political stuff, like some child dying in Africa every 5 seconds, I'm empathetic in the sense that I want that to change and feel sorry for such people, but I can't truly understand--not without putting my life at risk and going there to see for myself. I write about political injustices and try to cause change with such writings, but I feel that there's very little I can do in the end because governments, or people in a decision-making position, don't give a s**t what any of us peons think anyway.

But...everyday life? Conversations? I can't feel much empathy. I'm typically depressed and angry and physically uncomfortable due to my sensory defensiveness, and it's hard to think much about what my parents want when all that is hitting me at once every second of my life...except when I'm watching movies....

yes,i do.so much so that i was told i couldnt POSSIBLY be AS!! !

I do, but I don't like to show it.

Yes i have a sense of empathy but only in liveing things {people and animals} I do not feel much if any emotion from any written means {unles clearly stated ex I am angry} this becomes a problem with poetry and fictional materal.

I scored 17 on the EQ test. Like alot of others I tend to respond to animals more then humans although I don't like humans in distress in real life (I think I've kind of become immune to humans on TV in distress, although certain types disturb me).

I think my negative emotions are more in tune then my positive emotions. Then again I probably don't display then too much or even that well. For example I got this book of pictures of my deceased mother and I was very pleased I got it but I didn't have any big emotional feeling inside and thus didn't feel I could appropriately thank her in approximation to how much I appreciated the gift. In the same manner I open Christmas gifts and while I'm happy I am always unhappy with my bland and monotone, "Thank You." I wonder, almost certainly without justification, if they think I did not truly appreciate the gift, or more importantly the sheer fact the had bothered to get me a gift.