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3:28pm
July 12, 2013
➸ Trying to find the right words: I'm not talking about empathy, anyway
I don’t think empathy is even a real thing. Not the way they say.
I don’t think it’s a neurological attribute that people either have or don’t have. I think it’s a skill that people acquire, and have to keep acquiring in order to have it. And that there’s no…
If it is a real thing, it’s not what sociopath means when most people say it. And I’m highly disturbed by sociopath as a “neurotype”. It’s meant to be a description of someone’s ethics, not their neurology. If they EVER think it matters for any ethical reason, they’re not a sociopath in any definition I would use.
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fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:I feel like this is true. I always assumed I had to work at empathy and develop skills in relating to other people...
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Empathy really isn’t that simple, for example, there is limited empathy, some people feel nothing when people from a...
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