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Rather than empathy we should talk about compassion. The link mentions it too.

More and more I get this uncanny feeling that aspies and psychopaths are related. If both can have good cognitive empathy, very little else can differ when it comes to empathy. The biggest problem in aspies seem that they have a problem recognizing other peoples feelings, and feel them too. Even recognizing it does not trigger a response. There are different levels of recognizing but there are always some.

Psychopaths seem to have an issue with just the co-emotion part. They are well aware what feeling someone expresses.

How different is that really? Maybe Sheridan IS right when he tags aspies as evil?

Up here in the north we don't have a lot of serial killers, but some infamous ones have had Asperger's.

Still there is this belief of the innocent aspie "just doesn't know better", means well etc. While the psychopath probably do not mean well.

So do psychopaths/sociopaths feel compassion? I strongly doubt it.

Personally I'd go with very slightly. I can recognize that compassion 'should' take place (like someone's children die in an accident), I figure I should be more sensitive, but personally I don't really care.

 I do experience cognitive empathy. I can often understand why people feel a certain way, not always though. Real empathy, not so much. 

I can get very angry when I see injustice though. In those cases I don't empathise with the "victims" but I get angry with the "hostile party", so to speak, and make a mental note to fuck their shit up (emotionally or physically, preferably emotionally) as soon as I get the chance.

Edit: Injustice is a very broad term, I didn't mean all kinds of injustice of course. Wanna murder people? Go right ahead. Wanna treat your children badly? Don't do that in front of me. I literally hate my parents with every vein in my body and I can't handle that kind of shit very well.

When the diagnosis was first created I felt there was something to it, but back then only really messed up people got it, so what people like me had was called a shadow syndrome. So I really had no time to suspect anything, I just grew into it as times and mindsets changed.

I'm very perceptive of some things. People see that as spooky and almost supernatural. For me I can't see how they can't see it. I'm less perceptive to other things. I would be the worlds worst witness. More than once my friend has been mad at me because I didn't see she had a new haircut and stuff like that. I also have perfect relative pitch and perfect hue view just to make things worse. :)

 You're an idiot... Do I need to explain why?

 No, you can keep your delusions to yourself.

I experience cognitive empathy (like I can think myself into feeling a certain way) but not affective empathy (like when you see or hear something bad and you instantly feel a certain way). I choose my thoughts, and if I don't want to feel a certain way I just rationalize my way out of that feeling. Just one way logic can cause you to depress or strengthen emotions.

I depress feelings of guilt, I don't enjoy the way guilt feels, so I choose not to feel it. It can be a productive force, but only if you decide to allow it to be.

I strengthen feelings of love toward my family. They are the "infinitely usable" they will always be there because society says, "you are family" it would be dumb to throw that opportunity away. The reason I choose LOVE and FAMILY is because in order to keep family around they need to think or at least feel like you love them. And who knows, with enough practice you may actually feel the love.

Allow this information to contrast the fact that for years I did not love my family. I didn't feel love for them unless I was on drugs, and used them just like all of the other pawns. Not to say I don't still use them, I'm just careful not to burn bridges with them considering their lifetime worth.

 Ignorance is bliss i suppose... makes sense why you always seem so happy. :)

 Yes, i believe so, but it tends to be temporary and serves a purpose. Once you get what you wanted from that person any feelings go away, as if they never happened. 

When you put it like that it sounds kind of sad. However, I have never really thought of that while seeing various related advertisments on telly or handicaps on the streets :-/