FFS. My point was not about empathy anyway but it's alarming how many people think empathy cannot occur across identity groups.
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I find the opposite. I have a unique neurological condition. No-one else has it. I tell ppl how it makes me feel. They empathise easily.
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They have none of the symptoms but they can imagine what it feels like when I tell them & how frustrating the disablement must be.
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Because we share human experiences. We know headaches & dizziness are not nice & how much we rely on being able to see straight.
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Its even easier to imagine what fear, anger, pain, alienation, isolation feel like because we have all felt this to some degree at some time
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This does not mean we should think we're all on a level playing field with those things & I don't think we need to to empathise with them.
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The assumption seems to be that if we do empathise with others whilst being more fortunate than them, we deny that we are more fortunate. No
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It is not privileged & entitled for me to empathise with a gay boy who is being bullied whilst not being gay, a boy or bullied.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Didn't so say you were slightly bi, doesn't that give you a few privilege points to be allowed to empathise just a little with that boy
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Only if I'm saying what it is required.
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