Most autistic people I met lacked empathy but I dunno. I mean it's easy to say 'I have hyper empathy' but showing it is also required for that to be true! I knew an autistic girl I quite liked for a while but later found out she was mentally incapable of talking to people or being friendly. So that was kinda disappointing plus I felt like the few years I knew her just turned out to be a waste of time. Yeh plus autistic people I have met don't like sharing or being sympathetic because they probably don't know how to be sympathetic. Oh by the way. I am also autistic and I would say in the past that my responses and behaviour has been an example even to myself that autistic people definitely have issues with showing empathy. I am not saying autistic people don't have empathy. That is clearly not the case! Maybe you are also right that autistic people could have some kind of hyper empathy' but they certainly aren't capable of showing this hyper empathy' at least the ones I have spoken too with is in the hundreds of not thousands by this point.
