#fluctuating empathy

SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT UP.

There’s a few things going on with this statement.

1. Assuming that low empathy makes someone a bad person. It does not. Actions are what matter, not empathy levels.

2. Demonizing autistic people whose low/no empathy they attribute to their autism. Autism fundamentally impacts the way you interact with the world, others, and yourself. That includes empathy.

Anyway I love you people with low/no empathy this is a safe space for you <3

Signed,

you don't owe empathy to anyone

I see many posts on here trying to fight against the received idea that schizospec people can't love, even in times of (quasi-)psychosis; which is great, and I heavily agree with the gist of it.

But for me, that is not true. I don't feel love; sexual, romantic, platonic, familial, animals and pets, even most objects... Every type of love that one can experience for another being, I am, at best, lacking of it.

It took me a while to acknowledge it, mainly because I am caring and warm towards others, even if I rarely feel it. Same with empathy, I have fluctuating/low/no emotional empathy; but I do have high cognitive empathy, high sympathy, and high compassion. I guess that it makes me mask all of it well... Another thing may be because I experience obsession and dependency, which may look like love, but isn't.

I guess that some people here relate to that, and some others that do, but that cannot mask that; whether it is by only being schizospec, or by other comorbid disorder(s). In any case, you are valid and matter as much as those who do love!!

005: fluctuating medium empathy, or medium fluctuating empathy

DEFINITION ⦂⠀someone who has both fluctuating and medium empathy, has either fluctuating or medium empathy, has fluctuating empathy of one kind and medium empathy of another kind, et cetera.

ADDITIONAL ⦂⠀flag made on the 14th of August, 2025. It's basically just a spiky version of rwuffles' medium empathy flag (Tumblr link) from the 27th of March, 2025.

TAGGING ⦂⠀@radiomogai⠀@rwuffles

THEN SUDDENLY YOU HEAR SOMEONE VENTING OR COMPLAINING AND REALISE YOU DO NOT FEEL BAD OR GAF ONE BIT LMFAAOOOO . THEN YOU'RE LIKE OH RIIGGHHHTTT THIS HAPPENS SOMETIMES . A LOT OF THE TIME YOU HAVE MODERATELY DECENT EMPATHIC ABILITY . AND THEN OTHER TIMES IT'S LIKE WOMP WOMP 🎺🎺🎺 AND ABSOLUTELY FUCKING FAILS 💀 IT'S NOT 100% RANDOM BUT IT'S KINDA LIKE A RIGGED GACHA GAME 😭 CAUSE IF IT'S SOMEONE I DON'T LIKE OR IF THEY PISS ME OFF A LOT MY INABILITY TO GAF IS JUST . UNIRONICALLY THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER BECAUSE I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE AT PRETENDING TO CARE LMFAOAOAOAOO

— 🍋‍🟩🍃

[alt text: fluctuating empathy npd culture is seeing so many conversations in npd safe spaces center around lack of empathy... and barely relating. npd culture is then beginning to worry whether or not your empathy is low enough to meet the dsm5 criteria or not. "what if i don't have npd at all? what if i just wanted a source of blame for all my wrongdoings? what if everyone despises me the moment i have no more excuse or explanation? everyone will think i'm just a jackass now—"

[pt: Flux Empathy 4 X Empathy end pt]

“A prismatic crystal rose, grown from a single seed, carefully nurtured by [our] own hands~”

This is Part 5! See: Part 1 (coming soon), Part 2 (coming soon), Part 3 (coming soon), Part 4 (coming soon)

Colors are from rwuffle’s empathy flags:

High empathy: https://archive.is/e2ibd

Medium empathy: https://archive.is/LmNwI

Low empathy: https://archive.is/5jQxw

No empathy: https://archive.is/HiROt

Flux Empathy 4 No Empathy

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flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively feel attraction to no empathy individuals; flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively seek relationships with no empathy individuals

Flux Empathy 4 Low Empathy

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flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively feel attraction to low empathy individuals; flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively seek relationships with low empathy individuals

Flux Empathy 4 Medium Empathy

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flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively feel attraction to medium empathy individuals; flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively seek relationships with medium empathy individuals

Flux Empathy 4 High Empathy

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flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively feel attraction to high empathy individuals; flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively seek relationships with high empathy individuals

Flux Empathy 4 Flux Empathy

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flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively feel attraction to flux empathy individuals; flux empathy individuals who prioritize, emphasize, or (almost) exclusively seek relationships with flux empathy individuals

@radiomogai @liomangel