 whereas cognitive empathy is the ability to tell what kind of emotional state someone is in. Usually not through direct methods of communication like animal feeling great, being able to tell from the face and the body and the way that they're acting that they are in a particularly negative or positive emotional state. So that's where the misconception comes in, and I would say that the majority of autistic people, banking on the fact that they're not psychopaths, do actually have adaptive empathy, which is the empathy that you're thinking about.