We need to stop vilifying low empathy Iām begging yall.
Somewhere out there, theres a little kid who keeps getting in trouble because he doesnāt understand how to play nicely with the other kids and keeps hurting peoples feelings on accident. He doesnāt know why all the adults are so angry at him all the time. Heās not a bad kid, not on purpose. He doesnāt want to be a bad kid. Heās trying so hard and keeps making everything worse.
Somewhere out there, thereās a teenager getting into fandom spaces for the first time and every time she sees a post about her favorite character, who has trouble with emotions, just like her, itās always something negative. Itās always a post telling others to stop redeeming them, or mocking them for no reason. Sheās old enough to understand that sheās different from other people. Sheās old enough to know that despite that, sheās still doing her best to be kind. And sheās old enough to know that the real reason everyone hates her favorite character is because they donāt understand low empathy works. She hates herself because she knows if she ever tells anyone how she feels, sheāll be hated too. Itās a good thing she learned how to pretend. Nobody will abandon her if she says the right things, has the same expressions, uses the proper tone.
Somewhere out there, thereās a young adult who canāt understand emotions. They get annoyed when they hear people crying, they donāt understand romance in books and movies, and they still remember how it felt as a child when they watched their whole family fall apart when a relative died, and they didnāt care. They remember how they didnāt LIKE that their grandmother was gone, but they didnāt linger on it either. It didnāt shatter them the way it shattered their mother. And most of all, they remember how their mother looked at them when she figured it out. How she screamed that they were a monster she couldnāt ever love. They think maybe the world would be better if they werenāt a part of it.
But none of those people are inherently evil. There is no such thing. They still care about things. They have comfort foods and books they love and musicians they would love to see live. They have dreams and hopes and aspirations. All of them are so much more than the way they feel things. Please Iām begging you stop demonizing them. It HURTS to see yourself represented like that. If you simply donāt know how to portray us, then ASK. itās OK to not know things. You donāt need to be ashamed, but you do need to learn.
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