Autism symptoms empathy Videos

+Ana Antonio I have medium functioning autism and when someone tells me a story of something that happen to them I can't empathize at all so speak for yourself ana. A lot of people with autism can speak/listen and still not empathize people with high functioning aspergers or female carriers can much easier empathize then the rest of the people on the spectrum.like a lot of people with autism don't have FEAR from things they should be afraid of like a big wave coming in the ocean or a plane taking off something where most people will have huge anxiety and panic autistic people are sometimes not empathizes with other people and are still happy and not afraid in those situations.So no your actually not correct some stop pretending you are. Theres medium functioning autism and low too ya know? Also my dad told me he nearly died and I couldn't empathize at all he explained it to me and I just can't really get involved in the story an picture myself in his shoes even though my intellect understands it like im reading it off a book I just can't put myself in there and relate. Ana thats empathy ya know? not the shit your talking about.

+Ana Antonio I have medium functioning autism and when someone tells me a story of something that happen to them I can't empathize at all so speak for yourself ana. A lot of people with autism can speak/listen and still not empathize people with high functioning aspergers or female carriers can much easier empathize then the rest of the people on the spectrum.like a lot of people with autism don't have FEAR from things they should be afraid of like a big wave coming in the ocean or a plane taking off something where most people will have huge anxiety and panic autistic people are sometimes not empathizes with other people and are still happy and not afraid in those situations.So no your actually not correct some stop pretending you are. Theres medium functioning autism and low too ya know? Also my dad told me he nearly died and I couldn't empathize at all he explained it to me and I just can't really get involved in the story an picture myself in his shoes even though my intellect understands it like im reading it off a book I just can't put myself in there and relate. Ana thats empathy ya know? not the shit your talking about.

Of course, because you had a visual cue to what was happening to the spider, you had cognitive compreention of what was going on, so your emotional empathy was working normaly. Possibly your emotional empathy was in overdrive because, as an aspie, you thought that the spider would feel like you would if your arms were pulled out.Cognitive empathy means people with asperger have dificulty understanding or predicting intuitively what others are thinking or may think in a given situation. Aspies can learn to do that at a counscious  level, wich is exausting. For example, aspies can forguet to contextualise a subject before talking about it to another person. That is a malfunction of cognitive empathy. Emotional empathy works normally, that's why you feel attuned with people and animals at a non verbal, emotional level. At least this is how I see it... (my first language is not english, so... forguive my grammar)

I understand this theory - I'm just not sure it's correct - at least not for all of us. Or at least it needs a lot or refining. If you listen the vid when I tell the spider story for example, you can see at the youngest age I was aware of what something would be like for another creature...

Yes, the door analogy is genius!

Not really and not from my (limited) experience with BPD people. I know that is how they describe themselves, but especially in times of some trouble of arguments the empathy goes out of the window. To me, telltale are all those videos on the net that talk about "me, I, me, me" (and how awfull it is to them) and how little if any video's of BPDs i find in which they look at the broader context of their disease. Those are one way messages "look how sad I am." It is sad, but not only to them.

I agree, personality traits tend to fall on a continuum (except in the case of specific brain damage eg. Phineas Gage), so most of us are just variations of the norm. RE your comment that psychology "merely plays at being a science": in New Zealand that is not the case. "Psychology" here is interchangeable with terms like cognitive neuroscience and neuropscychology, because students of psychology are scientists who research the neural basis of behaviour, as well as social and developmental.

I scored 13/80 in the EQ. This was surprisingly low but could make sense. Ive always suspected that I was a bit different although I have never had any sort of diagnosis. I do not have aspergers characteristics at all. I score a bit below average on the psychopath tests but not too low. So where does that leave me, im not sure. I know im low on emotional empathy. I do not get upset about stuff although I feel that I can put myself in other peoples shoes. I suppose im just a bit cold.

17 points here, I am absolutely clueless about people's feelings, to the point I try understand them logically. It's not that I don't care, I just don't realise for the most part, even though I might seem selfcentred (for instance, if someone does cry I am upset, but not because they are. Because the sound of it upsets me and makes me anxious, as loud voices or crowd noises do). Then again, I'm very likely an Aspie (182/200 Aspie points against 19/200 NT) so that definitely fits.

@adamlewis7609 There's something to that. I do believe there are legitimate disorders, but sometimes I think behaviors or mental processes are pigeonholed into characterizations when they're really just differences like any other. After all, what is a "normal" human like, anyway? We're all fucked up in some manner or fashion. That's why I have more respect for neuroscience, which is based more on fact and less on conjecture, than psychology, which merely plays at being a science.

@acrylyl They're putting together the DSM V, which is the big book of all known mental disorders, and there's some controversy over what they'll do with Asperger's. The biggest thing you can see from my videos is that my eyes tend to look off to the side. Lack of eye contact is a symptom, apparently. But most of the symptoms are ones you have to look closely to see in my videos, as opposed to spending time with me IRL. I'll message you the link to the test.

@pornsterwoot No empathy means no compassion or caring for other people, meaning anything you think or do is solely about yourself and not others. I've thought that selfishness is the route of most evil if not all evil, and certainly having no empathy engenders extreme selfishness. And the most evil people in the world, psychopaths, serial killers, etc, are people who have no empathy due largely due to lack of gray matter in their prefrontal cortex.

@floggingmolly265 It's meant to be a self-administered questionairre for adults. And it's not looking for "selfishness" per se, just a lack of empathy, or inability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Zero-Positives (Asperger's and Autistics) aren't really "selfish", they just have an inability to see the world through other people's eyes, and thus have difficulties understanding them or how their own behavior effects/looks to others

@MsAgnosticatheist That doesn't sound like BPD. In general BPD sufferers are classified as only focusing on their own feelings/pain to the detriment of how they are treating and appear to others. The pushing people away and thinking they are shit only to the next minute blame them for abandoning you, etc. Have you looked up BPD in the DSM IV? I was misdiagnosed as BPD years ago bc I was a cutter, and it's a fairly common misdiagnosis.

Most people with Narcissitic personlaity disorder had low self esteem and it is true they tend to lack empathy. But in having low self esteem. Narcissist always need positive attention and reinforcement from others in order to make themselves feel better. Take my word for it. I think I may have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I also have a learning disability. Histrionics on the other hand constantly need attention good or bad.

@dysthymia83 I think BPD has gotten a bad rep because of the way it manifests itself. I know from what I've heard other borderlines telling me is that they agree that we aren't manipulative only that we feel intense emotional pain and often lash out on others because our emotions are so intense. People like Angelina Jolie are wonderful empathetic people and she is believed to have BPD.

I have BPD and my levels of empathy is painful. I feel pain and guilt when I kill insects. I feel like i can understand anyone and put myself in their shoes. Borderline Personality disorder suffers have MORE empathy than normal people. That is complete bullshit. Our exact problem is that we feel TOO MUCH empathy. The PHD field has no idea what they are talking about.

Is this test supposed to be done with someone else or alone? I did it twice and I got 16 the first time and 10 the second...(both alone) Im not selfish though...this test doesn't work truly? or alone for sure :p

Hell. I scored a 67. I sounded like a category 3, too: but it's not because of confusion that I'm avoiding people. It's because it fucking hurts too much. 

I scored 10 in the test... The average aspie is 20. Kind of wierd that I discovered that I was autistic a few weeks ago...

Hey, interesting post, thanks for sharing. You're clearly very well read and you seem like a really nice guy.

I took it from the back of the book "The Science of Evil", but if you google it you'll find it with ease.

Why is having no empathy automatically being evil for you? I would see it more as being neutral.