Elucidating Questions

You can find empathy in so many places

I don’t know if bugs do it, but mammals do.

Even predators under the right conditions, perhaps it’s just that it’s the right being

Sharks show attachments to humans, and there must be some empathy, some connection as beings that they feel for that to happen

But saying I’m empathic often provokes derision

Saying that I am an empathetic being that often understands and takes on people’s emotions

I wonder if it’s the hate of being understood or the hate of people who understand

Don’t get me started on energies

If you can’t read them you can’t know what it’s like to read them

Just like a cis person will never understand gender dysphoria in trans people

Unlived experiences can be listened to like a story

The emotions provoked by the experience can be understood

The experience itself is personal to whomever lived it

I wonder if it’s wrong to understand emotions

Not that I always understand my own

That’s more of a mental block than anything

I feel everything so strongly

The people I cannot understand are those who have little emotion

The ones who don’t feel things as strongly as I do

I wonder if being empathic is a skill or a detriment