Tired of watching people burn out because we don’t talk enough about hyperempathy as a neurodivergence that can be disabling We have concepts for mirror-touch synesthesia + allostatic load (& analogs) I don’t know how to frame this yet, but it’s yet another sensory conflict
The way normies communicate about empathy includes little nuance, their concepts are based almost entirely on what another person experiences outside of you instead of the internal experience of having empathy, so this whole topic needs more framework for shared understanding
@laurenancona I realized I was dissociating in order to avoid stuff like this. I feel way too much
@laurenancona This is somewhat tangential, but, so, when people feel aversion to the sound of nails on a blackboard, is that aversion purely to the sound? I thought it was because in recognising the sound people could feel that awful sensation in their own fingertips. It’s the latter for me…