My empathy is odd and sporradic; I cannot bear to see any animal suffering or in pain, and yet, when presented with a crying person, my first instinct is to run the other way; it makes me extremely uncomfortable and I don't know what to do with it. I have a hard time expressing empathy to humans unless I have had direct experience with the event they are dealing with, otherwise, the best I can offer is lukewarm sympathy, because despite my best efforts, I never know what to say, or how to make my voice sound sympathetic instead of just the same flat monotone it's always at.
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"Survival is insufficient" - Seven of Nine
Diagnosed with ASD level 1 on the 10th of April, 2014
Rediagnosed with ASD level 2 on the 4th of May, 2019
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