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Confessions 5w
idk but empathy should start being taught in schools because why does NO ONE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS
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Anonymous 5w

That and listening with your ears, not your mouth

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Anonymous 5w

especially I wish everyone was taught the difference between affective and cognitive empathy a lot of people who don’t organically experience affective empathy (i.e. immediately intuitively reacting with how you might feel in another’s position) as a reflex can still learn the cognitive type (mentally walking yourself through what that might feel like) quite effectively

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

partly because cognitive empathy is an important skillset, partly because I think most people would be way less eager to vilify the neurodivergent & mentally ill on the basis of “empathy deficiency”. cause that “deficiency” is almost always just an issue with the affective kind, it doesn’t actually make them incapable of All empathy

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