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I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?

Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.

I think sometimes empathy gets in the way–you’re too caught up in your own tangle of crap to do more than let the other person know you feel the same way, and you both individually drown next to each other. 

posts like this make me feel so much better. i harbour a lot of guilt for having “low empathy” but that doesnt mean i cant be a kind!

UwU

and thats a bet

*insert quartz in the background breathing heavily*

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