Dec 16, 2024
I have talked abt before how low empathy often gets demonized but also we need to stop Romanticizing hyper empathy. Hyperempathy isn’t fun or quirky it’s disabling. If you’re not disabled or in some way harmed (for lack of a better word) by having a lot of empathy you’re not hyperempathetic. I would consider myself hyper empathetic and it sucks. I have huge trouble accepting gifts because all I can think of is the other people in the world who also deserve them but can’t get them. I feel bad for random inanimate objects, even though I know it’s irrational. The guilt is constant. Hyperempathy doesn’t help me, and I wish I didn’t have it