Psychiatric/Neurologists please answer: Is there such a thing as hyper-empathy as many believe? Humans, please answer: Are your responses to life within conventional ideals or outside. If so, why? Everyone: Do you think emotional empathy can be learned? #empathy #humpday #ThxU
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Don't know about (1) and (2) but a big yes to learning emotional empathy. I used to be rubbish at it; better now, though by no means perfect.
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Thank you. Did you have specific methods to accomplish that? I am an emotional empathy disaster. TEACH ME! :D
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For me the first step was a shift in perspective: accepting that I'm not inherently 'better' than others. Then constant reminders to self: listen, let/help them speak, imagine myself in their situation, what would I do?
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Sorry, I don't have any shortcuts. After a while those conscious reminders morphed into genuine curiosity about others, and that tends to open up an emotional/empathetic connection.
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So, a question for you: what is preventing you from becoming more emotionally empathetic? (For me it was pride, self-regard, monstrous ego.) No need to share the answer here; and it might take a while for you to find it. Once named, the beast can be tamed & trained :-)
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Replying to @emelaarghh
Were you ever seen by someone who understands that as it is so described now in the DSM-5 girls on the autism spectrum are barely represented in testing and the few tests there have been where there's been brain mapping shows girls are not the same necessarily as boys with ASD.

Mar 14, 2020 · 6:30 AM UTC