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i dont ever feel guilt, I always feel justified in my actions.

I do get aggravated or angry when things dont work out the way i want them to and try to figure out how i couldve made them work out in my favor.

forgive my ignorance, but i don't get what you mean by direct and indirect empathy. 

your dad rejected you or was rejected as a child? 

i don't know if any of us can have the same exact feeling as the other person, b/c feelings are fueled by our past experiences, so our feelings must be different on a certain level, they must have a different meaning. 

i think it's the general emotional park. i think a similar experience helps... that's how you can empathize. 

I'll preface this since I'm new: I'm not a sociopath, but I'm decently anti-social.

Empathy is one of the things I have the most trouble with.  I feel emotions, know intellectually that other people have emotions like mine (in theory), but can't seem to connect the two in the social situations.  I identify with your example of feeling bad because you know someone else feels bad.  I feel regret when I cause someone pain.  But their pain isn't my pain and I tend to forget quickly that they're in pain (which is hella socially awkward).