#hypoempathy

Everyone is free to use these designs on shirts, stickers, pins, whatever they'd like, as long as they are using it for inclusive purposes! Just don't claim it as your own, please.

Take this as a reminder to use words correctly and avoid spreading negative stereotypes about neurodivergence. Especially when speaking about abusers and politicians. Don't conflate abuse or fascism with neurodivergent traits.

There is no such thing as an "evil disorder."

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The sociopathy & psychopathy design uses the hypoempathy flag colors by @neopronouns. The one with the orange brain is meant to represent a person with low empathy, with the question mark symbolizing how they do not connect to the other person's feelings, and the heart dialogue shows they are still being kind despite not understanding. The one with the blue brain is meant to represent a person with typical or high empathy, with the line connecting their brain to the other person's brain.

The narcissism design uses narcissus flowers (daffodils). Narcissus flowers were named after Narcissus, who in some versions of the myth turned into a flower out of despair of his reflection never being able to give him the affection he desires. The smiling mask represents the confident/affectionate facade, while the person crying represents how they are suffering internally.

The paraphillic disorder design uses the sunset para symbol by @a-hydrangea-named-acti, representing anti-contact & pro-recovery for paraphilic disorders. The upside down heart represents paraphilic attraction itself, and how it goes against the norm of typical attraction.

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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 else’s 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.

Paraphilic solidarity is my partner, who experiences no empathy or sympathy, comforting me through ‘relapses’ in my paraphilias.

We both have a very hard time understanding how one another feels and how to comfort each other due to both of us having low empathy, so when he does this, it makes me feel incredibly loved. Even though some of my intrusive thoughts trigger them, he still sticks with me to hold me through the urges so I don’t harm myself.

To everyone who thinks no one will ever accept you for being a paraphile, there will always be someone willing to listen. Love the paraphile community. 💗💗

Communal narcissists are narcissists who wish to do charitable acts in an attempt to be praised, liked, and of course to be right.

And it makes sense. Her father is literally the sin of pride. Having NPD is laid out for her genetically.

Looking at her pattern of behavior, a few things I've noticed are:

1- She puts her own ideas first and foremost and dismisses everyone else's thoughts and feelings (especially Vaggies). She thinks she knows best in every scenario and can't take no for an answer until it blows up in her face. 2- She continuously makes apologies but never changes her behavior, her apologies ring very hollow. 3- She makes people feel like they can't be mad at her because she doesn't mean to hurt them. 4- She pushes people way too far to reach her goals by guilt tripping and peer pressuring. 5- She will jeopardize everyone else for the sake of proving herself right. She's so obsessed with being right that she is destroying her relationships.

She wants her dad to approve. She wants her mom to approve. She wants hell to approve. She wants ANYONE to approve of her. And she doesn't realize that she's pushing everyone away. I think this will lead to a massive falling out and confrontation of her pattern of behavior.

This has always been clear to me, but becomes even clearer in the latest episodes (S2, EP 3 & 4.) Her obsession with being right and doing something good has led her to:

-Make Pentious's survival more about her hotel working than the fact that he's alive. (Her response was "I told you so!" and not "I'm so glad he's alive!")

-Put Angel in a scenario where hes faced with his abusers.

-Risk killing or severely injuring Angel and Husk.

Does this mean she is evil and intentionally cruel? No. Narcissism isn't an "evil disorder", it's just a disorder that results in some pretty poor behavior and lack of understanding for people sometimes.

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Tsuyu Asui from My Hero Academia is a trans girl bi lesbian!

Mezo Shoji is a queer vincian!

Ochaco Uraraka is polyamorous and bisexual!

Himiko Toga is an autistic polyamorous canonically bisexual person with ASPD, ADHD, OCD, HPD, NPD, and little to no empathy!

All Might is polyamorous and bisexual!

All For One is a polyamorous bisexual person with ASPD, IED, and NPD!

Cathleen Bate is a butch lesbian!

JUST SAY DECENCY. QUIT DEMONIZING FOLKS WITH LOW/NO EMPATHY JFC IT'S NOT THAT HARD

This is neuropsych ableism.

"Basic decency" is such an easy and more accurate phrase to use. Decency is a choice, a behavior - empathy is not.

Treating empathy as a choice, rather than a neutral emotion that some people do not have the ability to feel, is inherently ableist towards individuals who are hypoempathetic or non-empathetic due to neurodevelopmental disabilities, personality disorders, behavioral disorders, mood disorders, etc.

I also dislike the "basic human" phrase in general, because it puts this weird connotation that bad humans are no longer human. It's dehumanizing - dehumanizing bad people isn't a "progressive" thing to do.

(Not to mention, as a non-human myself, it has weird connotations for alterbeings.)