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3 lessons on emotional sobriety | Embrace Autism

I recently learned three important things related to codependency and emotional sobriety, and I would like to share those in case it helps others. It may just benefit you.

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Do you try to understand where the people who disagree with you are coming from? It makes for better fiction and societies. What do you lose by trying to do this even for actual monsters? I fear it's almost impossible when you think they are evil or involved in a secret grand conspiracy. Maybe some of the people selling you these narratives know this and do it on purpose. #CognitiveEmpathy

This makes a lot of sense, because #CognitiveEmpathy is the easiest for an outside observer to recognise sad evaluate in another individual.

So the researchers who thought autistic people had low empathy probably focused on analysing this.

Whereas one's level of #EmotionalEmpathy is much more internal and difficult to quantify to an outsider.

Empathic attunement: catching others’ emotions | Embrace Autism

Concepts explored in this article: empathic attunement, mirror–emotion synaesthesia, unmitigated communion, emotional contagion, and hyper-empathy.

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