I feel like I’m either super empathetic or a complete sociopath. I can completely turn of my empathy and sometimes it just doesn’t come up at all, not on purpose or like I’m trying to keep it down, but it just won’t come up. And sometimes I feel super empathetic. 

I feel no empathy whatsoever towards my mother. She complains a lot and has (TW) abused me (physically and mentally) since I was young, and I have no father. Whenever she cries I get pissed off. Whenever she goes through something I get pissed off. She has a severe victim complex and it makes me mad and feel empathy for anyone who HAS come into contact with her.

I empathize a lot with certain serial killers due to them being bullied and rejected and I can feel empathy so hard it hurts me, physically. 

But my friends cat died and I didn’t feel anything, but I comforted her and made her feel better instantly even though I didn’t necessarily feel sad but I care about her so of course I want her to feel better, but I didn’t feel bad. 

Sometimes I just don’t feel any empathy, or I feel a lot for certain people. Anyone else?