#hyper empathy

[jessica-fitzgerald]

For those of you yumes who feel hurt for your f/o(s) after watching content (fan made or official) of them getting hurt, destroyed attacked or bullied, I feel you.

For those empathic/hypersensitive yumes who avoid fan content / new source material of their f/o because it might/will feature them getting hurt/injured/killed… you are not alone, I do it too.

For those who even avoid satirical videos of them getting hurt, even though it isn’t taken seriously, because you’ll feel hurt for them. You are 100% valid and I feel you bro.

[lava-grunge]

Having moral OCD with hyper-empathy is SUCH a combo

[colorsandwords]

There’s something affirming in seeing Superman- because Clark Kent in the latest movie is very clearly autistic. And so am I

I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 18, and it took me a while to accept the diagnosis because of the circumstances surrounding it. But in retrospect it colors every aspect of my life

The black and white morality, the strong sense of justice, the almost physical pain when it feels like someone is misunderstanding you on purpose. I saw all of that when Lois was interviewing him, and it’s all stuff I’ve struggled with

The movie got brought up at dinner, and my stepdad was saying that he heard someone say the acting is bad. And when I said that Clark is being played as an autistic man, and that it makes a lot of sense when viewing him through that lens, and that I really liked how this Superman went through the trouble of even saving a squirrel, he laughed and said that’s way too over the top. And when I explained how he wanted to save the kaiju monster, and that it all builds into his characterization later, he said again that that’s too much and overdramatic

But I would do that

I used to force my mother to fish without hooks because I would cry at the thought of the fish being in pain. When I was bit by a dog at age 6, I begged my mom to not tell the doctors where the dog lived because I didn’t want it put down. I still brake for squirrels and birds and try to make friends with every cat I see.

This Clark Kent is a low support needs autistic man with hyper empathy. And that’s incredibly important to me. He puts himself in danger to save a dog. Twice. He dragged out a fight because he was looking for a way to not kill a monster. He sobbed like his heart was getting ripped out when a man he barely knew was killed in front of him and because of him. He put himself through pain and almost got killed because he wouldn’t let a baby be harmed. He started an international incident because he refused to sit by while innocent people were harmed.

And a Superman who wouldn’t do that isn’t Superman.

[notokbutthriving]

His ass has hyperempathy actually

[duskyumbra-indigo-1hundredand1]

The opinion you have on pigeons or any other "dirty street animal" or "pest" tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about you. Rats/mice, stray cats and dogs, racoons, bats, opossums, coyotes, ants, roaches, wasps, any other animal or bug I did not list. If you only care about the lives of beautiful animals I want nothing to do with you.

Yes its ok to be afraid of any of the animals here because yes they can sometimes have bad diseases or just be scary-looking to you, but even so their lives still matter and they still need to survive however they can. If you don't bother to acknowledge that- especially if its because you see them as dirty or ugly, kindly stay away from me. You're more disgusting than the so called pests you hate so much.

[augmentedchordsofficial]

How people think having high empathy works: “From seeing the slightest twitch of your facial muscles, I can infer your entire childhood trauma history! Everyone loves to confide in me and I’d make an amazing therapist!”

How high empathy actually works: “I can’t throw away this piece of trash because what if it’s sad”

[chronicallyqueercoining2]

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[alilloserboy]

What’s crazy about being hyper empathetic is that people who demonize low empathetic people are the same people who actually ignore hyper empathetic struggles. Imo I don’t think you can really have one without the other.

not to make this a ‘all about me’ thing but when people are like ‘low empathy people are evil and horrible!!!!!’ They use us, hyper empathetics, as a stepping stone without actually realizing our struggles or how we function. People don’t GET how hyper empathy is LITERALLY DISABLING, how you get upset over every little thing and you end up being so ‘selfless and caring’ that you have nothing left for yourself. It leads to burnout and emotional turmoil and depression and anxiety and oh my god it’s AWFUL!!!!! I need people to realize just how much having hyper empathy fucking SUCKS SOMETIMES!!!

And hyperempathetic people are all ‘good and pure’ until we get empathy for the wrong people. Because people don’t seem to realize we get empathetic over literally EVERYTHING and it DOESNT REALLY HAVE BOUNDARIES. I have experienced empathy towards some of the WORST people and it made me feel horrible and confused. Not to mention empathy towards objects, which in itself isn’t that bad until you begin hoarding because no object should feel left out and you feel bad for getting rid of anything.

I just,,,I’m really tired of seeing people either bring up hyper empathy in a dismissive way or by dragging us. I really don’t like some of the posts that’s like…hyper empathy vs no empathy. It’s infighting, it’s not cool, we shouldn’t drag eachother because we are both misunderstood.

Again, these experiences may not be universal to everyone with high empathy. And when I say high empathy I’m not referring to people of normal empathy levels, I am referring to people who are often inconvenienced and disabled by their crushing amount of empathy.

both hyper empathy and low/no empathy are traits of autistic people (and other things, but both are apart of autism) and dragging EITHER ONE is ableist. We are both autistic, and the bigger problem here is that people don’t like autistic people. We both have our own unique struggles but at the end of the day we are both hated for a common reason; people don’t understand us.

long ass rant guys,,,mb…