#conditional empathy

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Conditional empathy culture is (only having empathy to those you're attracted to) thinking you were just a really good friend and then talking to someone who was too old/young for you and going "waittttt"

Then it's also "wait I had a crush on you this entire time???"

Also this tends to pair completely badly with aplatonic, demisexual, and/or demiromantic. Ask me how I know (I'm all three)

conditional empathy culture is

[no-empathy-culture-is]

conditional empathy culture (only feeling empathy for close friends, in my case) is thinking you had high empathy for the longest time because you rarely interacted with anyone outside of your own social circle. and then once you do you think "hm. something's not right here."

(not in the "having low/no empathy is bad" way in the "perhaps i was wrong" way)

conditional empathy culture is

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Fluctuating/conditional(?) empathy with cluster B disorders culture is feeling nothing when I find my dad has a neurological disease that destroyed who he is or when our dog died. It's still having pictures of the dog hung up and my mom asking how I can stand to have them there anymore and being so confused. It's not caring at all when my grandmother develops dementia or when she dies. It's getting annoyed when a very close friend is having a bad day, sending the requisite heart emoji to ideally get some praise back and then talking to someone else because I can't be bothered dealing with that. But then if an FP is having a bad day it fucking destroys me.

I don't see an option to submit this anonymously, so I assume it's off?

fluctuating/conditional empathy with cluster b disorders culture is

[no-empathy-culture-is]

conditional(?) empathy/sympathy culture is feeling absolutely nothing when one of your friends tells you about some horrid stuff that happened to them but somehow almost crying because your chickens might be spending the night in the rain after the coop door swung shut and you couldnt get them in on your own

conditional empathy + sympathy culture is

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alexithymic conditional empathy culture is having no fuckin clue if the Vague Emotion im feeling is from me or someone else, or what to do with it

alexithymic conditional empathy culture is

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Conditional/Ficto empathy culture is feeling jackshit when a friend tells you about their relative passing but then bawling your eyes out when it happens to a character you like in a movie

conditional empathy culture is

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circumstantial empathy culture is losing the ability to feel for friends who get into romantic relationships that dont end well (non-abusive). as an aroace person i dont get the big deal to start but by the third time im just tired of it for myself

circumstantial empathy culture is

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situational empathy culture (has that been coined yet? basically i mean very specific situations alone trigger empathy and nothing else will) is when you get hit with the Empathy Beam it fucking kills you because you're so not used to feeling it.

that could be considered conditional empathy? i guess it depends if it's consistent or not