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I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

This is a great point.  ‘Empathy’ is often used as sort of a catch-all term in the clinical nomenclature and doing so can be very misleading.  When the professional texts refer to psychopathy as entailing an inability to feel empathy, most often they mean an inability to experience empathy, sympathy, and compassion.  And I agree that it’s important to be more precise in the distinction in that individuals who are low in the spectrum of empathy can indeed by quite high in regards to compassion and sympathy.  

This can be especially true in many cases where an individual is identified as being on the autistic spectrum, as well as cases of schizoid personality.  In these situations, it’s a bit more rare for the individual to feel the same emotion of another, and yet they can still feel a great deal of caring and concern for that other person.  

this post just made me cry. again. low empathy positivity posts always do. thank you OP. thank you ro

Empathy isn't feeling the same emotion, it's the ability to understand how others feel and why.

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