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spinningship
Student
- Dec 20, 2022
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I feel other people's emotions when I see them or when I see people crying say in a documentary I can end up crying too with them so I have some kind of care for other people. I just don't think I have empathy in the way other people do. Some social activists who talk about autism say that we do have empathy and it's a double empathy problem but that seems awfully convenient to me. Why is it that the one autistic symptom which would have an inherent negative stigma happens to be explained by a deficit in both neurotypes rather than just a deficit in those with asd.
Like I can try to force myself to put myself in others shoes but it's an active effort and it doesn't come naturally to me. Nor does showing emotion towards others really.
I think there must be something completely missing from my brain that relates to empathy so that I can't feel it or relate to others. Idk it's just complete shit and then people try to tell me to keep going. All I do is cope by pretending the empathy issue doesn't exist and avoiding others as much as possible. I have so much anxiety around others I never trust my brain.
Empathy is kind of what connects us to others else we are just kind of machines.
Every now and then I get into a thought spiral like this and it's when I come closest to ordering SN and just getting it all over with i'm just a complete burden and can't show any appreciation to others.
Like I can try to force myself to put myself in others shoes but it's an active effort and it doesn't come naturally to me. Nor does showing emotion towards others really.
I think there must be something completely missing from my brain that relates to empathy so that I can't feel it or relate to others. Idk it's just complete shit and then people try to tell me to keep going. All I do is cope by pretending the empathy issue doesn't exist and avoiding others as much as possible. I have so much anxiety around others I never trust my brain.
Empathy is kind of what connects us to others else we are just kind of machines.
Every now and then I get into a thought spiral like this and it's when I come closest to ordering SN and just getting it all over with i'm just a complete burden and can't show any appreciation to others.