Struggling with Empathy: My Journey to Understanding Others

I definitely feel this. It’s so hard for me to feel empathy for people, also been working with my partner on it. Like I just don’t feel it

I also don’t experience empathy either. I practice a lot of manual kindness and ask my friends to directly verbalize how they feel and what they want. I’m glad you found a supportive partner! /g

Lol I took an empathy quotient test and scored like 8 out of 40. So I know how you feel. Oddly enough I had more empathy when I was younger, I think. But when I started learning more about ASD as I got older, my empathy went out the window.

I tend to feel everyone's emotions all at once But sometimes its also really easy to turn it all off and feel no empathy as a way to cope or when im near a shut down or melt down. During those times when I can't feel anymore, I fall back on scripts! I have memorized things people have told me when I was feeling badly and I use those sentence for the people who need empathy from me when I dont have the capacity to feel