Can I offer an outsider's perspective? My BFF has this disorder, and she thinks she's empathizing too much when in actuality she is not good at reading other people's emotions at all. She takes what she is feeling and projects it onto them. It causes her to think people are putting her down when they're not talking about her at all, and it causes a lot of weird little misunderstandings. Like one time she told me I had to stand up to someone and tell them not to judge me, and I was like, "Huh? Judge me? Why would they judge me? Why would I care if they did?" Took me a while to understand that she was the one who felt judged.