Do you think you're capable to read people's face or reaction?

Hi all,


I'm new to this community and excited reading many stories in the community.

Recently I've been reading several articles about 'double empathy problems' and I've learnt about 'emotional empathy' which autistic people tend to be good at, that we can feel the same as other people (highly empathetic). But autistic people are not good at 'cognitive empathy' (the famous 'theory of mind' thing), where we're bad at cognitively prospecting people's emotions or thoughts.

I feel that this describes me exactly. I think I'm very empathetic (or sympathetic). I cry when I watch films or even trailers. I think I can tell when people get angry or uncomfortable when I'm with them (but I don't know why, but I can't do that with text only or voice only communication. I think I need face and body language to feel it). But I don't know at all how to fix it or approach it for them.

Now I'm curious about other people's experiences with this. I read several community chats here about empathy and what I thought was there're both people (who think themselves highly empathetic or not at all). 
Do you have any thoughts or stories?


Thank you.

Parents
  • Face- not good,but not terrible. Body- not good. I like to be helpful and supportive, but I struggle with saying the  right words social communication wise. I therefore do it in a non personalised  way. By the passing on of information that might help others. I've been doing it via the RSS feeds I have for over 20 years.

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  • Face- not good,but not terrible. Body- not good. I like to be helpful and supportive, but I struggle with saying the  right words social communication wise. I therefore do it in a non personalised  way. By the passing on of information that might help others. I've been doing it via the RSS feeds I have for over 20 years.

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