Contrary to stereotype, many autistic people feel too much for others, rather than too little. Known as hyper-empathy, this absorption of emotions and needs around them can result in self-sacrificing boundaries and habitual concessions to others.
Are you often overwhelmed by burdens that are not your own?
References:
Kimber, L, Verrier, D., and Connolly, S. (2023) Autistic People’s Experience of Empathy and the Autistic Empathy Deficit Narrative. Autism in Adulthood, online ahead of print.
https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2023.0001
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