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We have something in common, besides both of us having kick ass bodies.

My brother and I have the same face lol

I'm pretty sure my brother and sister feel empathy. My sister has close friends who she seems to care about a lot and I've seen my brother get upset while watching a movie. Though, I'm not sure if that was empathy or just something in the movie that brought back a sad memory for him of his own dog that had died.

He and I were watching the movie, I Am Legend, and there's a scene where the dog dies. That scene upset my brother. I think what he experienced was empathy because he got angry at me for not showing any emotion, as if he expected me to feel upset too.

My siblings are much older, and were getting ready to move from home around the time I was born. So while I have brothers and sisters, I was raised more as an only child with a single father who was more "buddy buddy" than an authority figure. Due to that I more or less raised myself.

My siblings are quite infamous for their escapades in my home town. Always getting into trouble and continue to do so to this day. Drug addiction makes one quite selfish, even more so if you have a history of it.

While I am not 100% lacking empathy, I believe it is very diminished through traditional understandings of the word. I understand other people's emotions, though they do not scream to me or cause me to feel very impacted by them most of the time.

Due to not taking after the family business in being a criminal by trade, I'm probably the most alienated from the family by my lack of caring for their problems.

I wonder why one sibling(s) can have diminished empathy and the other have intact?

Perhaps it really is just intelligence. People that lack empathy...that is a hit in their intelligence. Now it doesn't mean that they are overall less intelligent (though they could be) but it means it that area there is a deficit. 

That being said while I feel lacking empathy does not make one SUPERIOR at all I do not want to change. I like the way I am.

I play people through their empathy...it is essential that people that have empathy EXIST for ME.

Interesting... I lack empathy and I too have one sibling who is overly empathic (IMO).  There is over four years difference in our age with me being the elder.  I don't know what this means... and I don't think I really care, either.

This does hit home for me, because I too have a sibling (nearly a decade younger) who is generally considered to be one of the very kindest people in their circles and is overall praised and loved, including pictures all over the house and aspirations to save animals... Right out the womb, the giggliest baby & kid I've ever seen. Seriously. 

My mother too raised me to learn very fast that NOBODY CARES. That of course completely flipped around when my sibling came around, who was raised with plenty of love & cuddles to go around. My mother does claim I've always been cold to her and others, and that I'm cynical and wah wah wah. Personally I think I'm a cheery person, depending on my company. 

I should stress that I don't have any personality "disorders" although I don't personally feel like sociopathy is a disorder in that respect.