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  • wisely@feddit.orgtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there is a notable correlation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD).English
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    4 hours ago

    No worries I understand what you meant. I should probably also clarify that I intended that part for other readers.

    I know that there is a stereotype that autistic thinking is some kind of high level robotic empathy. It doesn’t feel like that for me at least. Instead of feeling a physical or emotional pain it’s an immediate pull and understanding towards kindness, fairness and easing suffering.

    Did I understand your post correctly that people do feel a physical pain response to others suffering? Somehow I made it to middle aged and never realized that if so. Thanks for the post, definitely one of the best I have ever seen and gives me a missing piece to reflect on. Which I will probably use later on to empathize with others who process empathy differently lol.

  • wisely@feddit.orgtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there is a notable correlation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD).English
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    4 hours ago

    Interesting. As someone with autism I can definitely say that I don’t feel others pain directly like it was my own.

    Is this actually what others feel? The concept of that makes no sense to me. Does it really feel exactly the same as if your own, the pain is not a concept?

    My experience is that I empathize by understanding. I learn about different people’s experiences and am interested in philosophy and ethics. I have been through a lot of trauma myself.

    I can then extrapolate all of that and empathize with how others feel, and the struggles they have. Often I find myself in situations where I am upset by people’s callousness but nobody else seems to care. It’s only when it affects them emotionally that they take interest, and then they seem to become unstable and act out in harmful ways that might not fit the situation.

    My perspective does not feel like a robot high level logic. The empathy is immediately felt but there is an understanding behind it and separation from self. The sense of self is very weak if there at all. I often feel separated from my own physical pain and sensations.