Danielismyname wrote:
zen_mistress,
My mother scored in the high seventies; she's quite logical, but she can really feel the emotions of others around her (she gets upset every time she watches the news, and she can barely watch horror movies).
I also get very upset while watching the news, and horror movies. But I never used to, it is only over the past couple of years, because of stuff that has happened that made me view things differently. Even with that, it's still not NT empathy, there is a sort of detachment to the empathy I have developed... I still view people as another species to me but I am not as indifferent to them as I was when I was younger.
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Tahitii wrote:
empathy = Identification with and/or understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.
I dont agree entirely with this. You can have an objective understanding of all this. To me empathy is a sort of emotional reaction that a person has that they cant control or predict, it just happens. I think it is a kind of projection of one's own experience and situation onto another person, which happens automatically. It happens through mirror cells.
My brother had virtually the same opportunities as me, but yet he was NT and developed the social skills and I ended up with a deficit. It was just the genetic lottery that caused my lack of social skills, not an unfair society.
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