Empathy capability of people with ASD could be preserved for all living beings, humans excepted
Channel: Université de Rennes
Date: 2022-07-13

Empathy scores measured in 202 individuals with autism were similar to scores obtained with 1134 individuals from the general population. Participants were shown pictures pairs involving 52 species, from mushrooms to humans, and asked to state their emotional proximity to them. The only diverging scores fromt the ASD group involved human emotion assessment.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10353-2