But how do we know it’s the same type of empathy non-autistic people feel? Or at the same level? We can never know for sure whether our inner experiences are the same as others. For example, how I know that what we both refer to as green is being perceived in the same way? You might experience it the way I experience red. And this is a real possibility. My brother has a form of color blindness that causes him to get red, green, and brown mixed up. I will never know what his experience of those colours actually is. But he does see the colors, just differently. This could be the case with how you feel empathy.