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Comment by LoganDark

> All of this is basically just empathy.

Or simulation. People have mistaken me for some kind of high-tier empath because my brain constantly (consciously or unconsciously) runs simulations on everything I do. Things I write are based on how I think it will be interpreted, not by whatever decides to come out of my brain. And things that other people are feeling are instantly understood because I can easily run a simulation of what that would feel like for me.

Maybe this happens because I'm autistic, maybe it happens because I have a dissociative disorder (DID), but whatever the case is, I definitely think it's interesting.

parent LoganDark 3 years ago

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