sal has some unspecified form of antisocial personality disorder (but she is extremely high functioning). her empathy is almost entirely cognitive (meaning her ability to "feel" others emotions is purely from a logical and rational standpoint, not an emotional one. she knows how you feel, but she very rarely feels how you feel when watching you feel it.) her emotional empathy is weak (contagious empathy, like smiling when you see someone happy, or feeling sad when you see someone crying. she with effort is able to feel with you, but she has to rely on memory to call up an experience similar to yours, and extract the emotional data from it in order to feel something. she knows how someone feels, but unless she has experienced the same or similar context that the others emotion is based on, she cannot share the emotional experience. oddly enough though, she is able to experience something very close to true empathy with those she considers in her "in group". moral reasoning is easy for others, but sometimes can be a challenge for her. being prosocial for her is exhausting mentally, as she has to basically override her entire personality. positive emotions are blunted, and she needs to think about them to "boost the signal". negative emotions are raw and unfiltered, resulting in aggressive behavior.
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