Guys I have been repeatedly doing this test and keep coming up with scores around 13. This time I managed 17...

Guys I have been repeatedly doing this test and keep coming up with scores around 13. This time I managed 17. I don’t think I’m autistic though???? Could adult trauma lead to reduced empathy?

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Oops forgot to ask, how can I get a higher score? Like be a more empathetic person.

>how can I get a higher score? Like be a more empathetic person
if you have to ask, you must be autistic

This, it's not a graded test-- it's an evaluation of your capacities at face value

Do you feel like your low empathy levels generate issues in your life?

Can autism develop in adulthood since I was never diagnosed and never had empathy problems earlier in life?

Go see a therapist, we can’t help you

Sometimes, I find it difficult to maintain emotional bonds with people. I suck at making new friends and have one remaining friend from high school since I cut everyone else off. I used to have tons of friends in high school. Also I find it difficult to enjoy things anymore? Is this due to being empathy deficient?? I don’t have issues with reading social cues though.

I just took the test and i find some of the questions rather dumb. Like, the one about „sometimes people tell me i‘ve gone too far and i can‘t see why“. What if people tell me that and i know exactly why they would say that because sometimes i have provocative views?

Anyways.
Which answers do you think made you score so low? Was there a theme to them?
Why have you cut those friends off? What makes that one friend an exception to those you‘ve cut off?

Eh I'm super empathetic but I didn't have a good grade on the test. Try reading more fiction, to empathize you need to really put yourself in the shoes of other people and books are great for that.

Does Autism reduce empathy?

I thought they just had trouble reading people and understanding what they're thinking and which emotions they're feeling.

Where as true lack of empathy, that is the ability to understand what someone is feeling but just not give a shit is a trait of psychopaths and sociopaths.

It can be both actually.

I have a distinct lack of empathy but I'm good at reading people and mirroring emotions.

Could I be autistic?

Probably not. Do you mean you know what‘s going on but you don‘t really care?

Just got 14. Not that surprising. I do feel sad when I see children and animals suffering, but when it comes to full grown people I hold them to too high a standard I guess

I understand what's going on but I don't feel anything.

Autists can fall into the latter absolutely

I’m op and this is me also. I don’t feel anything & it’s bothersome to care. I don’t know it depletes my cognitive resources by caring though I do feel emotions so I don’t think I’m a sociopath.

What would you say is the reason you don‘t feel anything?
I‘m similar but i know why i feel that way. I don‘t lack empathy for situations where it‘s appropriate. The issue is just that those situations are extremely rare, meaning that my standards for who deserves empathy and who doesn‘t are very different from your average person. That‘s not because i don‘t give a fuck. It‘s because i have very high expectations for myself and i hold others to the same expectations.

Someone who whines about their asshole boss since two years won‘t get a single drop of empathy out of me. Either confront her, get a new job or shut the fuck up.
Your spouse cheated on you? So what? I know exactly that you‘ve been a fucking drama queen with him from the start? Wtf did you expect?

I also don‘t see why i should get worked up about silly stuff like movies or books. They‘re just fairytales. And most of them are stupid as hell.

I do have empathy. But not for those you‘d think deserve empathy.
Maybe you‘re similar.

Social cues can be learned

Not that guy, but this is pretty much me. I hold myself to a high standard and then hold others to the same or similar. I only hold children, animals, and other non-rational creatures to lesser standards and thus feel shit when I see (white) kids crying, sad, happy, or whatever.

>fill in the test
>surprised by how much empathy I possess when answering the questions
>finish
>score of 27
Well that's disappointing. I don't see what being introverted or preferring to be organized has to do with empathy, so it's a bullshit test in my opinion.

Non-npcs can't understand npc programming. The test is entirely valid, you are simply not who the test was designed for

Anyone actually got a score above 30 here or are we all just autistic

Nope. I genuinely don't want to see what the answers required to get the full 80 would look like. Scary stuff

>11/80
Ugh? Could sociopath be also an answer?

Maybe i‘m an autistic sociopath myself, but i don‘t see how it would benefit anyone if i would fuel their self-pity.
I think this is more of a philosophical question. It depends on how you think the world works. I think that the world isn‘t fair, but that you are entirely responsible for how you react to it. So if someone reacts with feeling overly sorry for themselves, it really disgusts me.

My score was 47. and if anything, i‘d consider myself a sociopath. I know what people feel, it just doesn‘t affect me.

Thanks OP that was fun

To answer your question, just desire it. I had no idea how I would overcome my social disorders when I was younger, all I knew is that I WANTED to. So just keep the desire alive and it will happen on it's own. Trust me

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Same. I had an egotistical period but that's a waste of time and empty to me. I don't understand feeling sorry for oneself. I just take it all as it comes and react the best I can. I have bigger dreams, but for mundane shit like work or relationships, I couldn't care less

This isn't really that tough, but I've also been reading people like books since I was young. Life's fucked sometimes, and people are alarmingly predictable in nine of ten cases.

If I had to lynchpin it somewhere I'd say my empathy is rooted in the genuine desire to see the world suck just a little less, and part of that is not being a shitty unfeeling jackass or someone who's let life render them emotionally dead.

As for people on the autistic spectrum, that's an entirely different detachment on the par with a different language or something similar. Their problem isn't the empathy, but the autism and I wouldn't use an empathy test to figure it out.

It's also entirely possible to score low on this test and be empathetic by simply being any mix of
>emotionally secure enough not to lose it over animals or film's
>socially secure enough to not feel for strangers or those-left-out
>comfortable enough with yourself to be at peace with rejection and/or solitude.

It seemed to me by not giving much shit about animals you lose about ten points off the top, and for not being an inclusive glusive socializer who tries to include people and keep spirits up (which in no way implies you're socially inept, just not as highly socially initial as others), you lose about another thirty and by that point you're gunning for about a 35.

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>emotionally secure enough not to lose it over animals or film's
>socially secure enough to not feel for strangers or those-left-out
>comfortable enough with yourself to be at peace with rejection and/or solitude.

Completely agree with this. Whilst doing the test i thought more than once that this will lower my score but is actually the healthier and more mature way.