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Mysty
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 Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Do some aspies have lots of empathy? My seven year old |
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| ThisisjusthowItalk wrote: | | Autists have difficulty detecting other people's emotions. Even low-functioning autists can become inconsolably distressed if they realize they have hurt another person's feelings. |
If I understand what empathy is correctly, then I understand that as meaning that those with autism has less empathy generally than most folks, but have stronger feelings when they do have empathy. |
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Danielismyname
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:31 am Post subject: |
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People with ASDs have low or no empathy. However, those with insight/awareness can use their cognitive ability to work out the situation; it'll usually be delayed, but it'll be there. It's just not "felt" instantly.
Yes, once individuals realize what's going down, they then understand and care.
Sympathy isn't affected, and that's far more important than empathy in regards to decent and good behaviour, as if you know what it's like to have something happen, like if someone hits you you know it hurts, so the individual with an ASD will realize that it hurts the person when they hit said person.
Some "unlucky" individuals can have a double hit in regards to lacking empathy, and that's comorbid psychopathy (i.e., they don't care when they figure it out). There's two types of empathy. |
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