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Turncoat said: 

FFS

Empathy is just being more particularly affected by the subtle cues and connections between people. It's not all that special. 

Yeah, that is a more psycho-sociological understanding of it. But I'm interested in the nueropsych of it. It's harder to find this information than it is to find stupid youtube videos. :( 

And I was also wondering about the origin of the term empath, historically. To see if our understanding of it has been watered down, skewed or broadened a bit. As it seems like it has.

An empath is somebody who humblebrags and virtue signals so hard that they claim to somehow have these abstract virtue signaling superpower that "overwhelms" them. The epitome of special snowflake. I bet a lot of empaths also identify as socialists.

Empathy exists on a spectrum. But people who have high empathy tend to read others more quickly and accurately. HSPs are pretty interesting. Some think HSP is a disorder some say it's a gift. It's prob neither but I think it's interesting.    

Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS, HSP, or Highly Sensitive Person) is not a condition, a disorder, or a diagnosis. It is a neutral trait that evolved in 10% of the human population and many non-human species as well, because it is a survival advantage in some situations and not in others.

You might have a point. I met only one person who said she was an empath, but she was a total freak like CS. You wouldn't be able to tell them apart. 

I'm an empath.

Blanc said: 

Turncoat said: 

FFS

Empathy is just being more particularly affected by the subtle cues and connections between people. It's not all that special. 

Yeah, that is a more psycho-sociological understanding of it. But I'm interested in the nueropsych of it. It's harder to find this information than it is to find stupid youtube videos. :( 

Yeah you'd have to do some actual reading, and even then it wouldn't likely be in layman's terms. 

I just don't see what makes it all that special, it's fundamentally just their capacity for what their perception can take in about those around them, so all you'd see is some area of the brain being either overactive or underactive. You'd have some names of things but then what would you do with that piece of trivia? 

And I was also wondering about the origin of the term empath, historically. To see if our understanding of it has been watered down, skewed or broadened a bit. As it seems like it has.

"The Greek root word -path can mean either “feeling” or “disease.”"

So effectively we can assume Em is for Emotions and Psycho is used as it's lacking. Tele- even for telepath basically means long distance feeling, like the tele for telephone.