RE: Empathy Quotient
May 22, 2018 at 7:08 am
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2018 at 7:27 am by Edwardo Piet.)
You kindhearted motherfucker, you.
Nope not at all I just answer all the questions as honestly as possible. I was actually really really surprised to score 0 the first time.
Second time it was 2, third time it was 3.
2 and 3 are very close to 0 lol. A lot of the questions are very borderline for me. It's a mere fluke that I got 0 the first time. In any case I either have zero empathy or very very very low empathy. In the sense tested. We're not talking about compassion, of course, I have a conscience. I just can't feel people's emotions or see the point of view of another person as anything other than correct or incorrect (correct=in agreement with me).
Some people with autism have especially high empathy. Like far more than the average person. Although sometimes those empathetic feelings are so overwhelming they get blocked out.
Also, there's that saying... that if you meet one person with autism you've met one person with autism. It affects everyone differently.
There's many different ways autism can affect a person. Some people with autism, for example, are hypersensitive to their own bodily feelings. Others are hyposensitive. I'm hyposensitive... so I struggle to notice any of my own emotions, and therefore the emotions of others, for the same reason that I struggle to tell whether I'm hungry or thirsty or horny or sleepy (until it becomes blindingly obvious... i.e. I have a very dry mouth or stomach pains or an erection or I find my eyes keep closing).
The sense is called interoception. Here's a video on it:
So, like I said, it can be both hypo and hyper. And even I was, indeed, surprised to score 0 the first time around. There's a couple of questions that I'm borderline on. I am not surprised at all to score very close to 0 as my empathy is pretty poor even by most autistic people's standards (especially for someone high functioning), due to my poor interoception. But I was surprised to score 0. Which is why I retook the test twice more. I'll take it a fourth time right now for good measure, actually. I expect it to be very low again but I have no idea if it will be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 or whatever.
Let's put it this way, even though 30 or lower is considered a sign of autism spectrum disorder I would have been EXTREMELY surprised if I scored as high as 30. So much so that I'd probably doubt the validity of the test at that point lol.
Okay gonna take the test a fourth time. Brb.
EDIT: Oh by the way... to give you an example of some of the borderline questions I struggle with. One of the questions is: "Friendships and relationships are just too difficult, so I tend not to bother with them."
If it means RL friendships and relationships then the answer is "strongly agree" but if it includes purely online friendships and relationships then the answer is "slightly disagree".
Done. I got 2 out of 80 again:
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(May 22, 2018 at 6:57 am)SaStrike Wrote: I got 40
How'd you get 0 though lol, that must have been intentional?
Nope not at all I just answer all the questions as honestly as possible. I was actually really really surprised to score 0 the first time.
Second time it was 2, third time it was 3.
Quote: 3 seems more realistic. It also says if you score under 30 you're on the autism spectrum disorder.
2 and 3 are very close to 0 lol. A lot of the questions are very borderline for me. It's a mere fluke that I got 0 the first time. In any case I either have zero empathy or very very very low empathy. In the sense tested. We're not talking about compassion, of course, I have a conscience. I just can't feel people's emotions or see the point of view of another person as anything other than correct or incorrect (correct=in agreement with me).
Some people with autism have especially high empathy. Like far more than the average person. Although sometimes those empathetic feelings are so overwhelming they get blocked out.
Also, there's that saying... that if you meet one person with autism you've met one person with autism. It affects everyone differently.
There's many different ways autism can affect a person. Some people with autism, for example, are hypersensitive to their own bodily feelings. Others are hyposensitive. I'm hyposensitive... so I struggle to notice any of my own emotions, and therefore the emotions of others, for the same reason that I struggle to tell whether I'm hungry or thirsty or horny or sleepy (until it becomes blindingly obvious... i.e. I have a very dry mouth or stomach pains or an erection or I find my eyes keep closing).
The sense is called interoception. Here's a video on it:
So, like I said, it can be both hypo and hyper. And even I was, indeed, surprised to score 0 the first time around. There's a couple of questions that I'm borderline on. I am not surprised at all to score very close to 0 as my empathy is pretty poor even by most autistic people's standards (especially for someone high functioning), due to my poor interoception. But I was surprised to score 0. Which is why I retook the test twice more. I'll take it a fourth time right now for good measure, actually. I expect it to be very low again but I have no idea if it will be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 or whatever.
Let's put it this way, even though 30 or lower is considered a sign of autism spectrum disorder I would have been EXTREMELY surprised if I scored as high as 30. So much so that I'd probably doubt the validity of the test at that point lol.
Okay gonna take the test a fourth time. Brb.
EDIT: Oh by the way... to give you an example of some of the borderline questions I struggle with. One of the questions is: "Friendships and relationships are just too difficult, so I tend not to bother with them."
If it means RL friendships and relationships then the answer is "strongly agree" but if it includes purely online friendships and relationships then the answer is "slightly disagree".
Done. I got 2 out of 80 again:
