Biggest illustration yet of the fallacy of neurotypical "empathy". Autistic empathy is trying to imagine the other person's feelings, reactions, emotions /as if you were them/. Neurotypical "empathy" is "what would I do in their situation" & doesn't take into account different people are different
@🦇🤘🏳️🌈🔸️Jennie (not the guide dog) 🐝🍆 What. That's a really weird way of doing empathy. Is confuse. Of course now I am trying to empathise with people who do empathy that way.
They actually seem to have arrived at the least empathetic definition of empathy possible?? Impressive.
Big reason "what would I do in their situation" is such an awful way of going about it is that they also just consider that situation as an isolated incident rather than part of all the other situations comprising the person's life. They ignore the other person's internal AND external context.
Like how is it NOT KNOWN that people who go into meltdowns at sensory overload are experiencing an emotion? It's just fucking WILD that "I would not become emotional at this thing therefore this can't be an emotion" has become a dogmatic ""fact"".