How empathetic would you expect a 7yo to be? My daughter is complicated! Her grandad died suddenly on Tuesday morning. Obviously we are all upset. Dd though has barely had a flicker. She keeps asking things like 'why is your face like that' to dh earlier when he was upset. She wouldn't hug her granny when we saw her today. I felt I had to warn her to be nice before we went into the house. She honestly seems more concerned about when she can have a friend to play. This is not the first time I've wondered whether she's totally typical, sorry I don't know the terminology because I don't really know what I mean. I don't know what to look up here.