#high empathy autism

[fanboy-enby-undead]

I know people say you need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes now and then, but don't forget to wear your own sometimes.

You'll never know your own struggles and comforts without it.

[thatcontrolfangirl]

Sorry had to delete the poll- round two of autism stereotype polls!

Just a reminder that low empathy does not equal bad person, people with personality disorders are not inherently abusive, and self-proclaimed “empaths” can fuck off

[ps1demodisk]

Sorry I'm not low empathy autistic in the "mysterious loner boy who secretly cares about his friends and talks in a monotone voice" way and I'm actually just completely indifferent to the suffering of people I don't know personally and help strangers out of a sense of "this is the right thing to do" and not "I feel so bad for this person" or guilt.

I sit and listen to my friends even though I don't really care about hearing about their problems because I know they'll be upset if I don't, and despite the fact I honestly can't genuinely care about the issue itself, I care about the impact it's having on my friends and that's enough to make me want to help them through it.

Did you know that's actually an expression of empathy all of its own?

It will absolutely happen again I literally am not even sorry

[bookwyirm]

Please Stop.

I wish I didn’t have to make this post, but it’s happened to me too many times for me not to say anything. Please stop telling people to kill themselves because you disagree with them.

Please stop telling people to self harm because you don’t believe what they believe.

Please stop telling people they are not valid or needed in the world because they are standing up for their beliefs.

Please stop telling people to disregard themselves to make you feel comfortable.

Please stop spreading hate and promoting bullying because you don’t have a good argument.

Please stop degrading people because you feel like they are wrong.

Please stop ganging up on people because you dislike a ship.

Please stop demonizing people on posts that aren’t even related to the problem your talking about.

Please stop going into spaces that are not meant for you and harassing the users.

Please stop invalidating medical and/or mental health issues because of something they cannot control.

Please stop sending hate to authors because you don’t like what they write.

If you do these things, YOU are the problem, YOU are the hateful one. YOU are the issue. YOU are the outlier, YOU are in the wrong. It should be common sense. If you don’t like something, you scroll away, you block the tag, you politely explain your position, you block the person. You DO NOT create a hostile environment. Shame on you. Shame on all of you.

And if you agree with this, remember it goes both ways. Whatever you believe there is someone on the other side you need to respect enough not to do these things. We’re all just human.

[triptych-of-voids]

Your comic abt the empathy test made me wanna take the test myself and I also scored under 30....the autism won this battle

[rjalker]

"We need more weird autistics!" You can't even admit, let alone handle the fact that having low or no empathy is an autistic trait.

[sashathewolfdogfan]

“you’re just being sensitive.”

yeah. i am. so what? so what if im a crybaby? why is that a bad thing? why should i be ashamed of being sensitive? i’m allowed to cry, am i not?

we should normalize crying. everyone deserves to cry every once in a while. im tired.

[autism-affirmations]

[untetheredsymphony]

It's absolutely crazy how distressed I can get when reading the news about the of suffering real people, or just thinking about the many, many inequalities of the world. It's enough to make me have a break down if I experience too much of it lol. But in fiction, in whump especially, I have complete control. I am the whumper and the whumpee and the caretaker. I am this triality of torturer, tortured and cared for. I think it soothes my need to fix everything in this world of ours because I have this sad little whumpee in my arms that I can break with many torture methods (that are real and have been experienced by real people, the emotions there often having been experienced by myself) and then piece back together until everything is okay again. I'm not sensitive to fiction, almost any of it depending on my mental state, because I know it is a controlled enviroment. There are trigger warnings for the stories and I know whether there is going to be main character death at the end. It's comfortable and comforting, and I'm very very happy I am able to do it in a supportive enviroment.

[neurotypical-sonic]

need to sleep but can't stop thinking about low empathy sonic, especially when he was younger. he finishes up a fight with eggman, sends him running, but the town eggman was attacking took heavy damage. people are scared and crying, theres rubble in the streets, houses are ruined. but eggman's gone now, his robots arent attacking anymore. houses can be rebuilt, and it's not like people don't have anywhere to stay, they're already setting up the town hall as an emergency shelter/accommodation for those who can't live in their houses until they've been fixed. why are people still upset? they shouldn't be upset, everything's okay now. maybe it's just the adrenalin rush, emotions still high from the fight. whatever, they'll be fine. he waves off the mayor asking him if he's gonna stay in town and and runs off to find his next adventure

[anonymouslydisabled]

if you’re a high empathy autistic talking about autism even if you only have a small platform please stop pushing the narrative that all autistics are incredibly high empathy. Not only is it untrue but it further pushes the stigma that low/no empathy people like me are bad people or that we’re emotionless and can’t manage relationships for that reason. Even if you yourself are high empathy you should still be explaining how some autistic people can experience incredibly incredibly high empathy and how some autistic people can experience incredibly low or no empathy - we’re both valid, sympathy and empathy are not the same thing.

[perplexingluciddreams]

sometimes i feel like a burden with my high support/care needs.

my mum will say every time that i am not, but it is hard to believe when i see her struggle to help me because she is feeling ill or tired or in pain.

and it is worse for me because i take so long to even recognise that (don't usually notice until she tell me), and even then i have very low empathy so i have to "manually" force myself to care.

and mostly it makes me feel guilty for being "a lot to deal with". then i feel even more guilty for "making it about myself" - even though for me that is part of my autism, struggle to see others' perspective, low theory of mind, low empathy, low awareness, etc. (basically my brain make me very "self-centered" because i cannot expand thoughts to other things outside myself).

and in the end of this cycle i end up feeling even more like a burden, even more useless.

i don't want to make anyone think that i AM a burden, because factually and logically i know i am not, but this is a reality for how i feel sometimes with high support/care need nonverbal autism (especially with continued regression, make me become slowly more and more dependent on my parents).

just want to share for this reason - maybe it will be relatable for some people, maybe it will give new perspective for other people. negative feelings is sometimes helpful to share, even if it is hard to think about.

(please don't think you need to go in comments/reblogs and comfort or reassure me! this is just a feeling i have sometimes, not something i think all the time).

[teleportzz]

girl what is my empathy 😭 a dear family member could literally be crying in front of me and i will feel nothing except mild annoyance that i'm obligated to care about this, but when a fictional character in a y7 cartoon that i really like has an episode where they make a selfish mistake and learn from it by the end i will feel so much empathy and secondhand shame that it's hard to sit through. someone please tell me this is a normal autism thing and that there isn't something else wrong with me

[demitheshine]

✨If you think people with low or no empathy are inherently assholes and/or "the problem with society" then get the hell away from me

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

Questioning NPD + Autism culture is wondering if it’s even possible to develop NPD when you’re high empathy.

(Genuinely can someone help me figure this out? I think it’s just that I assume everyone else functions the same way I do, so everyone else also feels like dying when they get the slightest bit of polite criticism. But I genuinely can’t tell and there’s no resources on it.)

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