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Originally Posted by _nullandvoid_
There are different types of empathy. Cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. Of those two, the emotional side of empathy my therapist liked to call sympathy.
But I think this test measures the emotional side of empathy well. People with personality disorders can also score very low, not just autists.
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Emotional empathy is not the same as sympathy
The problem is too many of the constructs in the test are focusing on social functioning, not necessarily empathy. Someone can be uncomfortable in social situations due to social anxiety for example and yet still be very empathic (I am). The test tends to see one as indicative of the other, this is a bias.