The stereotype of lacking empathy

[Anonymous]

thoughts…

[Anonymous]

While lack of empathy is obviously very common in humans ,I doubt that the percentage of people lacking empathy is significantly different among different,large groups of people,each with common traits mostly unrelated to having empathy.

[Cyberaddict88]

No joke my official ASD report say I lack empathy all I could do is laugh for a asd psychologist to write something so absurd is frankly insane and I was assessed back in 2015.

[Ezylryb]

I don’t know if it the would is fucked mentality I have but I often laugh in inappropriate situations and get called a heartless basted all the time so does that me I have no empathy ore have I given up? I don’t know.

[Stephen]

For me it would be my inability to see how my words affect other people. I grew up not knowing my own emotions, (alexithymia) so it is difficult to know how others feel. I think this is perceived as lacking empathy. If I find out I have hurt someone, I genuinely feel bad.

I assume also that learning earth shattering information affects others the same as it affects me. I am very stoic and can pursue information wherever it leads without getting emotionally invested mostly. And understanding leads to very dark places sometimes. Some people dont want to understand reality. That was a hard pill to swallow as an adult. The online scientific community was my savior.

[DragonEmbers]

Honestly, given that non-autistic people murder their own autistic children or abuse them into acting “normal,” what they say about empathy is rather a joke. Plenty of them fail to empathize with autistic people or even people in general.

It’s possible that what they call “empathy” is actually just being similar enough to other people to have similar and therefore understandable desires and experiences. They will also fake their way through social interactions for various reason, so what seems like empathetic behavior may not be motivated by actual empathy.

Plenty of non-autistic people are xenophobes, bullies, and violent offenders, so I don’t see them as particularly empathetic; therefore there’s no point in comparing autistic people to non-autistic people in terms of empathy.

Also, people don’t know what’s happening in other people’s minds: an autistic person could experience empathy without anyone knowing because the feelings aren’t expressed, or not expressed in a way that other people recognize.

• This reply was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by DragonEmbers.
• This reply was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by DragonEmbers.

[Robin]

I have cognitive empathy, meaning I understand the feeling, but I am not going to become paralyzed by it.
So instead of patting the person on the shoulder and say «that must have been so awful», I instead aim to help the person so that they get better.
So for me:
Emotional empathy = superficial platitudes that changes nothing.
Cognitive empathy = offers restructures that helps.

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