EmpressJess wrote:
Thanks for posting these. I have huge difficulty in responding to tests, because I have passed as NT all my life, so it's hard to separate my native, autistic spectrum responses, and the way I've learnt to be, so I could complete each test twice and give completely different responses. I have great difficulty in social situations and quickly get exhausted by social contact. However, if anything I feel that I'm over-empathic. It's as if I'm feeling everyone else's emotions and don't know what to do with this or how to process it. I often know what I should do in a social situation but am not sure how to do it, nor am I even interested in doing it. This doesn't show up in tests relating to emotional intelligence / empathy. I've come across quite a lot of people on the autistic spectrum who feel something similar. Anyone identify?
I know exactly what you mean. The first time I took the test I told it what it wanted to hear. The second time I answered completely honestly. I'm empathic to such a degree that every movie makes me well up with some emotion or another. It's like I'm so tuned to the human spirit that I have a hard time functioning on a normal level. I was diagnosed at 36(last year) and I think I've just spent my whole life figuring out people. People don't like it when you finish their sentences or know what they are thinking or how they feel. I feel you, man...pun intended.