#hyper-empathy
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phecdasolar · 5 months ago
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Friendly reminder that if you see something bad or stressful on the internet you can ignore it. If you see something bad that’s trending you don’t have to click on it.
Your mental health comes first. This is going out specifically and especially to all my fellow hyper-empathetic people out there. If you know that going down a rabbit hole of information on a specific horrible topic is going to make you depressed or feel like crap then you don’t have to interact with that. (Edit: I have been informed that this is called “doomscrolling.” To repeat what I was told: Doomscrolling is not activism. It doesn’t end up helping anybody and it only hurts you.)
In this day and age where we have access to the internet and information about soooooo many different horrible things it can be so easy to get sucked in to all of it. We have wars, we have constant natural disasters (there’s a massive fire close to where I live right now, it’s barely contained, and is rivaling the fire we had a few years ago that destroyed an entire town. It’s terrifying), we have beloved creators being accused and revealed to have done horrible things (the fact that I can say this and multiple names immediately pop into my head sickens me).
The point is, take a break. Get off the internet. Breathe. Go for a walk. Maybe look at videos of cute baby animals, or compilations of “restore your faith in humanity.” Go read a book. Eat something you like. Take a nap. Drink some water. Take a shower. If you’re religious, pray about it. Take care of yourself and don’t allow yourself to drown in the dread.
And for the people who might come at me for this saying “how dare you not care about the problems going on or the pain other people are in!” That’s the problem. It’s not that I don’t care, the problem is that I care too much. Please refer back to the hyper-empathetic part of this message. I am a sympathetic crier. I will allow myself to get so sucked in to an issue and I will end up feeling terrible about it. I won’t want to leave my bed, I feel like crying and throwing up and there is an everlasting pit in my stomach the size of Alaska. I am no help to anyone in a state like that, and neither is anyone else. I will say it again, take care of yourself and your mental health first.
There’s a reason on planes they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others.
But that’s not to say you have to ignore it completely! Take a step back, take a break, and then engage when and only when you feel like you’re at the mental/emotional/psychological capacity to do so.
When coming back a tip I have is pick one specific issue, and focus on that. Only one. Don’t overwhelm yourself. If you can, find a friend or someone you know is reliable and levelheaded and talk to them about it. Multiple perspectives can help a lot, plus you feel less alone when tackling a difficult situation.
It’s important when you’re gathering information on the issue that you know your sources are reliable, and you’re doing your own research. “Okay, multiple people on Tumblr are screaming about something but they’re saying different things about what’s going on.” Tumblr is not a reliable or credible source I am sorry besties. We are a bunch of dumpster gremlin raccoons given access to a platform to scream out our personal thoughts and opinions. Please don’t take them as solid immediate truth.
I have more I could say on this probably but it’s 1 am and I am losing my thought coherency. Have a good night/day and take care of yourselves <3
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orangegloom · 2 months ago
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im curious. also please reblog for a larger sample size blah blah blah youve heard it before
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t4tails · 4 months ago
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 1 year ago
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“Autistic people don’t have/understand empathy”
This may be true for some, but not true for everyone. I myself have hyper- empathy and tend to get emotional over the smallest of things.
If you’re autistic and don’t experience empathy, it does NOT make you a bad person. It just simply means you can’t understand why people feel the way they feel. And that’s okay.
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 4 months ago
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Exploring the Connection Between Being Autistic and Loving Animals via
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The Autistic Teacher
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ofswordsandpens · 11 months ago
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I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...
#our experiences are very different lmao#pjo show crit#sure the show isn't completely out yet#but id argue that the characters (namely the trio) seem way more developed and well-rounded in the book by this point in time (episode 4)#and look im not saying every change the show has made is bad#but by and far there has yet to be a change to characterization that feels like an IMPROVEMENT from the source material lmao#the closest contender I'd say is show Percy does seem a tad angrier than book Percy#but again I wouldn't call that an improvement... its just different and I think that /change/ works because it feels like the same essence#but even that has had some issues because I feel like the show has inadvertently cut down some of Percy's canon book empathy here and there#I think the show has nailed Annabeth's pride and intelligence and her warped worship of her mother#... but they've also made her hyper competent to the point that she's not making half of the mistakes she did in the book#which ISNT good because book annabeth is smart but she isn't infallible#its a big point that she has the theoretical intelligence but none of the real world experience/application#she gets tricked by medusa and goes to visit the Arch just cause she loves architecture and that's okay!! she's twelve and a nerd!#I also dont like that they've cut/toned down her little crush on Luke#actually they've not even showcased the familial bond between annabeth and Luke either in the show so like lmao#and then grover#by now grover's fear of failure and repeating this past mistakes and wanting a license has already been acknowledged in the books at least#in the show?? not so much#and his canon book suspicions and wariness of medusa... were given to annabeth#like medusa in the book was Grover's moment to shine cause his instincts were right!#and in the book fight he even very intentionally attacked medusa#but his highlights there were cut completely in the show#and finally sally#...idk who that is in the show but that's NOT my sally jackson#percy jackson#mine
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literallyjusttoa · 11 months ago
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I am a “Meg and Apollo’s master/servant bond evolved into something a lot like an empathy link post their dip into Chaos in TDP” truther and I will be till the day I die.
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lowkey hilarious how hannibal sidestepped the autistic savant stereotype by giving their main character superpowers
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dr-spectre · 5 months ago
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Hey guys, you ever have a special interest and in that special interest you fixate on a character a BIT too much to the point where if you think about certain bad events that happened to this character, your chest begins to hurt and you become really fixated on it? And this causes you to feel more discomfort and sadness. And any sort of mention or media, fan made or offical of these bad events that occured to this character makes you feel terrible and start to sweat a little? But sometimes you can handle it while other times it causes you not to sleep well and you feel miserable the entire day? Ruining your concentration and good mood you had earlier.
And then people online make the discomfort worse by saying false info and making the events seem way worse, making you feel like you're a nutcase and a fool for going deeper into the character by gathering outside informaton, and these false statements ruin your perception on the character that you tried to build BECAUSE of those misconceptions people make online about your favourite character in the first place?!
No? okay... me neither...
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artvann · 2 months ago
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zaralil twins, nero and silvia
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human n reg forms
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peskypadfoot · 2 months ago
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and they say he's not autistic
[Image Text]: "Jack Crawford heard the rhythm and syntax of his own speech in Graham's voice. He had heard Graham do that before, with other people. Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns. At first, Crawford had thought he was doing it deliberately, that it was a gimmick to get the back-and-forth rhythm going. Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop but couldn't."
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no-empathy-culture-is · 1 year ago
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shoutout to hyperempathy people who actually end up being 'worse' at empathy than their standard empathy peers because you get relation fatigue faster bcs of heightened empathy, because the amount of empathy you feel is overwhelming, because your hyperempathy is caused by something that makes it difficult to show empathy. you deserve the best
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creekfiend · 1 year ago
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it's always a bad time to have hyperempathy but it's especially not fun today
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t4tails · 9 months ago
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 4 months ago
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Internal Experiences of Autism
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The Autistic Teacher
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calypsoscyclone · 5 months ago
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Hyper Empathy Redesign
“A flag for when one is hyper empathetic, could be because of a preexisting condition, or it could just be who one is”
[no ids] for @necromanticzz
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