HyperEmpathy and High Functioning Autistic?

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This sounds a lot like me. It's like I'm some sort of buddhist, all understanding 21 year old version of ghandi, but yet I'm still very logical, and rational to the point of having a balance... I have a lot to offer when it comes to sounding judgement... E.G: The Law, and social ideals. I could make perfectly reasonable and fair laws for a nation that 99.9% of non bias people would likely agree with. (Much better laws and less bias/more understanding laws that America currently has)

Can anyone else here relate? If so, please respond to this I have a lot more to say, and am interested in hearing how other people here are aswell... So feel free to chat me up

I'm highly empathetic, to the point that it's often hard for me to function. It can be a one-on-one thing, where I feel the pain of a single person (this was a big problem when I was homeless because a lot of the girls I roomed with at the shelter had really f*****g tragic lives. After one of my roomies' aunts were kidnapped and less than a week later she was raped, leading to her trying to commit suicide, I could barely eat or get out of bed for weeks and considered committing suicide myself) or this thing where I feel like I'm experiencing the pain of everyone in the world at the same time, which is way too overwhelming and usually ends with me beating myself until I'm numb. I also have a lot of empathy towards animals, so walking past the lobster tank at the grocery store can ruin my week and some days I can't get out of bed because dairy cows miss their babies. I think empathy one of the main reasons I'm so depressed.

I can really to relate something like that, I have an extreme emotional sensivity. Such as when I'm in a room with many people laughing and then I feel extremely stimulated, sometimes I even seem not to have control of my feelings and get in a strange laughing. That leads me to feel very tense and if possible avoid some of those situations that happens. I think I may have Pseudobulbar affect.

Hello. For me, I find myself interesting in terms of empathy. My EQ says 19 out of 70, which is really low. I am a HSP though, 20/27 I believe if I counted correctly. I have always known I am a HSP, just didn't have a term for it. I did an alexithymia test and score with high traits of alexithymia. So I am apparently not empathetic at all, but I am overwhelmed by too much going on at the same time because of being a HSP. I believe there can be hypoempathetic people and hyperempathetic people out there with ASD. I thought I was empathetic, but I guess I'm not.

I have this... partly? Like, I have moments where I can be so touched by something so little, that I feel like I could easily burst into tears because of it. I can also be easily inspired by a lot of things and end up having to write stories based on those inspirational experiences as well. I am often highly emotional, especially when it's a case that doesn't involve me. For example, melting down do to tension with my parents arguing with someone. It causes me to meltdown into oblivion because I can instantly feel those emotions. I often tend to consider myself to be somewhat of an empath because of this too.