unrelated to the theme of the blog, but in one of your posts, you mentioned that masculinity should be treated with kindness, not necessarily empathy because not everyone experiences that. i wanted to look into the experiences of people who dont experience empathy and similar things. is there a similar blog (like this-is-somethingsomething blogs or others with similar gimmicks) that looks into those kinds of things?
I recommend looking into tags like #hypoempathy, #low empathy, and #no empathy.
I also recommend @no-empathy-culture-is.
For those who are unaware - Empathy is where a person has emotional or physical mimicry of someone elseās experience, such as seeing a person injure their leg and feeling that pain in one's own leg, or seeing a person grieve over their loved one and feeling a mimicry of that grief. Empathy is not necessary to be kind towards others, as one does not need to understand someone in order to choose to be kind towards them.
Sympathy is a feeling of concern or pity towards someone else.
Kindness is how you behave towards people.
Empathy and sympathy aren't always a good thing. For example, a person with high empathy might feel super uncomfortable around someone who is grieving because of their empathy, and become emotionally unavailable or unhelpful, because they unintentionally make that person's grief all about themself. Another person with high empathy might freak out at even the smallest of injuries because they feel as though they themself have been injured, and thus not be useful in a medical situation.
People with neurodevelopmental disabilities (such as autism), cluster B personality disorders, and/or behavioral disorders often (but not always) have low, no, or fluctuating empathy.
It's important to not misuse the word empathy, because it leads ableists to judging neurodivergent people as cruel or vindictive simply because they do not have that emotion.
