#ParentingInPalestine

I can only imagine the depths of Hell experience of having #HyperEmpathy and living in #Gaza / #Palestine in year 2024 / year 2025, realizing how much terrorism works as intended. #NotGoodEnoughMalala3 Emotion and brain torture to witness #Gaza

Hey folks

Very glad that we made an executive decision to step away from fedi for most of the day whilst we were experiencing empathy overload (which some may refer to, or describe, as compassion fatigue).

If we hadn't, we definitely wouldn't have ended up posting stuff that we would have massively regreted 🥺

For those who've never experienced this, you are very fortunate. It's very much not a pleasant experience, especially as your empathy centre starts to slowly boot back up and anxiety, worries, and RSD start to creep back in 😅

For us, it's kind of like when Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek turns off his emotion chip in First Contact. However, unlike Data, we still retain the ability to feel annoyance, irritation, and rage. It's like a pea soup fog, but for emotions.

You'd think we've had learnt to prevent this happening to ourselves after the first time, or at least the second, but apparently we're a very slow learner 😑

It's linked to neurospicy folks (especially, but not exclusively, autistic peeps) and is often seen as a result of someone with hyper-empathy getting entirely overwhelmed.

Given that we're AuDHD and experience near-constant hyper-empathy, it doesn't surprise us in the slightest that our mind has a figurative emergency stop button to prevent a complete meltdown.

Just to clarify here, nobody else is to blame for us experiencing this: we did this to ourselves by trying to offer too many people too much support in too short a period of time.

As much as we don't want to do so, we may need to add some filters to our home feed to hide certain posts entirely, since we seem pathologically unable to stop trying to offer support... literally to the point of overloading part of our mind 🤦‍♀️

We would like to apologise in advance, as this will mean that we will likely not see some of your mental health posts at all 😞

If we're friends (or at least folks who occasionally chat elsewhere), then you probably know other ways to reach out to us if you need us urgently.

That said, despite experiencing hyper-empathy and offering a lot of support, we often can't provide the kind of personable support that many folks need.

Anyways, that's it. We're going to add the new filters to hide posts and head to bed.

Gay nya-ight every-nyan  

#EmpathyOverload #CompassionFatigue #neurospicy #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #HyperEmpathy

Fellow autistic individuals: do you have good strategies for dealing with hyperempathy?

Liebe Mit-Autist*innen: habt ihr gute Strategien, um mit Hyperempathie umzugehen?

Please note that I may not have the capacity to answer to your replies right away.

Möglicherweise habe ich nicht die Kapazitäten, um zeitnah auf eure Antworten einzugehen.

#AutisticTrait #autistic #hyperempathy #Autismus

Without high expectations or hope I started a new #show #recommend by many while having breakfast.

And now I'm in tears. Everything all at once. Surprise, relief, happiness, sadness, anger, joy. And I'm only 10 minutes into the first episode.

Well done.

Emotionally overwhelmed and the absolute necessity to breath slow and steady and focus on one thing. And one thing only.

Thank you.

Today my #autism in my #AuDHD is in the spotlight – sided by a good amount of virtual #hyperempathy.

Tears by liters extinguish #meltdowns?

WOW… #DoesTheDogDie .com just saved my sensitive #Autistic ass from a HUGE meltdown.

I started to watch Guardians 3 today, but the first 15 seconds with CG baby raccoons and ominous music prompted me to stop and go check thar site for animal torture and death.

HOLY CRAP THE ENTIRE MOVIE IS ROOTED IN EXACTLY THAT! That kind of shit — yes, even to CG animals! — fucking destroys me. #HyperEmpathy

SO GLAD I didn’t go see it in theaters. And now, I never will.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/in-practice/202306/6-subtle-signs-youre-a-high-achiever-with-low-self-worth

#hyperempathy #neurovidersity

@terminalimpala @actuallyautistic

Oh yeah, totally. It’s part of our egalitarian approach to status and hierarchy. Crows and dogs and cats and chickens are all people who just don’t speak our language, and afaict they usually appreciate our lame attempts to speak theirs.

Or as in your example, to speak ours at them unfiltered and vice versa, like Han Solo’s bilingual conversations with Chewbacca or Greedo or Jabba.

#hyperempathy