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Imperceptus
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19 Dec 2007, 9:47 am

I use to think that I had a large amount of Empathy in High School. After being out and about afterwards though, I am unsure as to why it seems to have sloped off. I do still feel it sometimes, though I wish it would happen more now that I am married (would save me a lot of stress)


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19 Dec 2007, 9:54 am

EvilZak wrote:
I've always thought that the autistic "lack of empathy" has more to do with the fact that we'd act differently in many situations to most people, and we base our ideas from that.

Most autistic people can understand responses about the big things, like rape - it's a stereotype that we can't...


Yes. I've often been very confused over people's ideas of what empathy is. I don't feel a thing when someone mentions a break up. If someone mentions a big injustice I feel outraged. If someone I'm really close to is struggling in life or someone dies, I get sad.

I care about people too. I do have feelings, sometimes it's not the type of feelings others love but who are they to tell me what to feel or that I don't feel because I sure do notice alot of people pick and choose what they feel empathy towards.

What about all of these people who only decide to take up fund raising for cures once it hits close to home and affects them personally?

Is that not the same form of lack of empathy?