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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.

another teacher grace moment i love is when rocky gives him the oxygen model he goes 'i dont have one of these thank you!' like that is THE most teacher response ever when a child gives them something utterly incomprehensible but made with love

the martian is about a commanding red headed lady saying "oh fuck that guy is in space let's get him let's grab him we need to acquire that guy from space and put him on earth we gotta we gotta." project hail mary is about a commanding red headed lady saying "jesus christ we need to punt that guy away from earth and into space with no hope of return asap he's gotta be Gone we must change his location from earth to space post haste here I've got my baseball bat ready."

In chapter 18 of Project Hail Mary Grace says he has a temporary office on the aircraft carrier that used to be a storage closet for bathroom supplies. He describes himself as "approximately as critical as toilet paper" and I'm over here like, that's pretty damn important Grace. Toilet paper? The thing everyone went crazy over in 2020? Critical component of western hygiene and plumbing systems? Without which everything literally goes to shit?? Half of my fucking job is refilling toilet paper. Toilet paper basically pays my fucking bills. It's a very apt description of how much Grace undervalues himself.