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Simon Baron-Cohen’s empathy test is flawed

June 17, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

At least for me.

To really get an accurate picture of my empathy scale, many of the questions would have to end, “…but I don’t care.”

My low score of 32 should be even lower, because it was hard for me to answer the questions precisely. They were written only 2/3 “right.”

For instance: yeah, I know the rules of social situations or “society”. But sometimes? I don’t care.

When I read about Asperger’s, the authors seem eager to point out that sufferers want to fit in, but can’t figure out how.

I never wanted to fit in with the boring airheads I spent my entire school, family and workplace life surrounded by. Blech.

More like: how could I escape from these dingbats and live for free in an abandoned lighthouse?

Sure, I could figure out how to fit in (yawn), but mostly couldn’t be bothered, and in fact considered doing so a betrayal of my “true self.”

So I’m kind of a slacker sociopath. Which, hey, sounds like a Black Flag song! Wicked!

Fortunately, I have a calorie burning outlet for my whatevers, called the internet.

(And lack Ted Bundy’s upper body strength.)

(And thanks: I did say “Sasha” first. Force of habit. And remembering other people’s names is too much work)

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