I ' m not familiar with RBN . . . raised by narcissists , I presume ? I do have abnormal empathy , but the other way off the scales . I can strongly empathize with almost anyone , to the point where I often know how people are feeling before they do . Sometimes it gets overwhelming and I ' ll go numb , where nothing seems to phase me . Having it be a protective response to an entire childhood influenced by a narc makes total sense , but I hadn ' t seriously considered it before . If Autism is the result of an intense world , it follows that living under the intensity of a narc from an early age could produce the same type of protective behaviours . Thank you for your insight <| sep |> Some folks call him a Kaiser blade . but I call him a slingblade