In my experience, autistics are very empathic. Sometimes in different ways than neurotypicals, and how it's displayed might be different as well.

Googling something like "quora autistic empathy" will give you plenty of informed posts about the subject. I recommend reading the ones written by actual autistics.

Here are a few examples:

- https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-think-autistic-people-deal-...

- https://www.quora.com/Can-autistic-people-be-empathetic

- https://www.quora.com/Can-people-with-ASD-Asperger-Syndrome-...

Thank you, the last link shows it was utterly wrong to use autism as an example.