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IfGodCouldDie posted...

The thing is, she has been visibly upset everytime we have had an animal die.

When our fish died earlier this year she cried and was upset for weeks about it. She even got mad at me for flushing it.

When one of our dogs died in August, she was very upset about it and even drew pictures to bury with the dog when we buried it out in its favourite camping spot.

So she shows signs of empathy but I'm starting to think she is faking it.

I am not even close to an expert on this subject so take this with a big grain of salt, but from what I understand, psychopathy/sociopathy (I would say this situation reads more like psychopathy but they're almost the same thing) doesn't mean 'can't get upset'. If you like a living being and it dies, anyone is going to be upset - the difference is that a Psychopath/sociopath views it more as "this object I liked is gone" whereas someone with more empathy would view it as "this living being with its own thoughts and emotions is dead". They can also have SOME empathy, it's just stunted. Or they don't have any at all and they're faking everything.

Not that it's guaranteed that your daughter is a psychopath or sociopath, but honestly those examples you gave are pretty alarming.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.