Thoushant
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Hello!
I'm having trouble with cognitive empathy, which in my understanding is the ability to imagine where someone might be coming from, what they're thinking and their between the lines meaning.
I'm overly logical, and while it swings up and down, I find my baseline to be a bit contemptous when others don't talk directly about matters and I feel guilty if I say something "sinister" or inbetween lines in social settings.
I'm really good at identifying emotions in others, but it is more "let me check in" and not continous and I don't have the "timeline of other peoples emotions" or my own for that sake. I am clueless as to why they might be feeling that way, and I don't know how to respond because of that. Everything is a bit "vague" and I am fearful of misunderstandings or labeling what someone else's experience might be.
I'm having trouble with the superficial "facades" of everyday life, the small gestures to aprreciate one another comes of as fake to me, and I feel fake if I do them (like small talk, silence fillers, over appreciation of events and others, general "agreeing" statements, that is said with a different intention).
I was hoping some of you might have dealt with something similar, and how you may have tackled it?
PS: The few times I've smoked weed(white widow, the whole week after I have improved cognitive empathy, and I have an actual understanding of social events.Problem is, I don't like the droopy eyelids, and I don't want to rely to heavily on it.
I'm having trouble with cognitive empathy, which in my understanding is the ability to imagine where someone might be coming from, what they're thinking and their between the lines meaning.
I'm overly logical, and while it swings up and down, I find my baseline to be a bit contemptous when others don't talk directly about matters and I feel guilty if I say something "sinister" or inbetween lines in social settings.
I'm really good at identifying emotions in others, but it is more "let me check in" and not continous and I don't have the "timeline of other peoples emotions" or my own for that sake. I am clueless as to why they might be feeling that way, and I don't know how to respond because of that. Everything is a bit "vague" and I am fearful of misunderstandings or labeling what someone else's experience might be.
I'm having trouble with the superficial "facades" of everyday life, the small gestures to aprreciate one another comes of as fake to me, and I feel fake if I do them (like small talk, silence fillers, over appreciation of events and others, general "agreeing" statements, that is said with a different intention).
I was hoping some of you might have dealt with something similar, and how you may have tackled it?
PS: The few times I've smoked weed(white widow, the whole week after I have improved cognitive empathy, and I have an actual understanding of social events.Problem is, I don't like the droopy eyelids, and I don't want to rely to heavily on it.