There are many signs of hyper-empathy in autism, including the following:
- Feeling another person’s emotional suffering for several days after being around them.
- Having a strong emotional or physical reaction when witnessing people facing tough situations.
- Displaying strong physical or emotional reactions while looking at videos, photos, or other media of someone experiencing a negative situation.
- Having difficulty establishing boundaries with others because of concern and sorrow for what they are experiencing.
- Forgetting to take care of themself due to emotional overwhelm from someone else’s problems.
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It’s fun to have some sort of ND condition where you are simultaneously too empathetic - altruistic to the point of self harm - but also read as cold and unfeeling because of facial expressions and vocabulary. It really teaches you that perceptions overwhelm reality.
