Empathy and low EQ score

Has anyone else been upset after being diagnosed as an adult to find that they have a really low empathy test EQ score? I felt ashamed at first, then upset and was even angry at times. Did it affect you in the same way? I'd really like to know thank you.

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  • I wouldn't overthink it tearsintherain it's just an online test besides it's a well known fact that autistic individuals have great challenges with many mental facets including but not limited to empathising with others. Just be a nice person as much as you can okay. Autistic people aren't bad inherently in my opinion. I believe autistic people have good hearts. It's just that they/we lack the mental capacity and cognitive ability to access higher emotional states like enhanced empathy and greater mind to mind understanding. You can't do anything about this though. So just accept that your view of the world has been altered because your mind is altered autism. Be a nice person as much as you can and work on your empathising abilities. I have worked on my empathy deficits by consuming empathogens. They provided some useful insight into why I am the way I am so that I could accept this way I am. By empathogens I mean supplements that have been shown to enhance empathy.

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  • I wouldn't overthink it tearsintherain it's just an online test besides it's a well known fact that autistic individuals have great challenges with many mental facets including but not limited to empathising with others. Just be a nice person as much as you can okay. Autistic people aren't bad inherently in my opinion. I believe autistic people have good hearts. It's just that they/we lack the mental capacity and cognitive ability to access higher emotional states like enhanced empathy and greater mind to mind understanding. You can't do anything about this though. So just accept that your view of the world has been altered because your mind is altered autism. Be a nice person as much as you can and work on your empathising abilities. I have worked on my empathy deficits by consuming empathogens. They provided some useful insight into why I am the way I am so that I could accept this way I am. By empathogens I mean supplements that have been shown to enhance empathy.

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  • I really do hope that you are referring to the controlled taking of MDMA under therapy, because otherwise I have a rather quite burning suspicion that you might be consuming widely illegal class-A drugs! Which would be really very bad indeed and I feel quite weird about! But, on a positive note, I'm a really very glad that they've helped you to both understand as to why your EQ might have been lower than others' and as to why, at a deeper level, that is or rather was! :-) I've just realized that this sounds to be so very rude indeed - I can just be really quite blunty and harsh in my speech/and the way in which I talk. I didn't mean anything rude by it - I promise. I'm just speaking as me. :-)