"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (@[email protected])

Having been once involved in the #NVC community, not lost on me that prohibition against empathy as sharing of commensurate stories—praxis explicitly marked out in NVC as verboten—turns out to be an especially neurotypical proscription. Don't connect with me at a human level by sharing your heartache in harmony with my heartache—for that decenters my pain to make it about your pain—says neurotypicality. It being inconceivable that such act could decenter us both—to make it about aching hearts.