 You know, we had a lot of research done by a lady called Lorna Wing who theorized that autistic people lack empathy Going further there was a study Few studies that Simon Baron Cohen has done which looked into two main factors in empathy Cognitive and adaptive empathy Cognitive you can see and perceive emotions in other people Adaptive you have an appropriate emotional response and just to get it out of the way autistic people Quite low in cognitive inherently we can't work on it, but inherently it's quite low Adaptive pretty normal