Is it normal that i have no empathy.

I honestly get confused about how people feel and why they feel that way. I also don't really know how to respond to situations emotionally. My friends tell me that I'm not supposed to be this emotionless.

Is It Normal?
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  • If you saw a man who was trying to protect his young child during a civil disturbance (like the london riots), being dragged away from his child by a group of men and then kicked and punched mercilessly , and his arms were reaching out to his child, and his child was watching his father being beaten/killed, if you had no feelings of sadness, then you have no empathy, this is normal to an extent 1 in 100 children are psychopathic.

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  • I have lots empathy accept I do not care about there feelings and laugh at them when they are sad.

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  • Your friends are right. I wouldn't know, but one theory could be that you haven't experienced enough in life to be able to feel that empathy/sympathy for other humans.

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  • Perhaps you have Aspergers.

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  • I'm kind of that way about certain things/situations. I mean, sometimes I don't get the normal kind of excitement out of a lot of things that most other people would. When someone cracks a joke, or says something that for some reason everybody in the room finds hysterical, I'd just be like; "Hah! Yeah... ". I think it actually makes me come across really stupid sometimes, but really, its not that I'm confused, or don't understand, I really just don't care. And sometimes I can't pretend that I do.

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  • There's nothing you can do about it, it's just who you are.
    i know a lot of people who are emotionally "closed"- i guess? it's totally normal.

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  • 'I have no empathy for the guys I crush on and I don't know why. It's only them though, everyone else, I seem to have empathy for.'

    that's not called not having any empathy.
    just means you haven't found anyone yet - or you're clearly quite young and still selfish as shit.

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  • I have a lot for some things. None at all for others, some of which I probably should. Oh well.

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  • I have no empathy for the guys I crush on and I don't know why. It's only them though, everyone else, I seem to have empathy for.

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