dehumanization
is there a word like "derealization" or "depersonalization" but specifically for not experiencing other people as real because i think a lot of people have it and it's upstream of a bunch of stuff
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In the right direction but too active? I think when I experienced this it didn't feel like something I was doing, it felt like something that had been done to me.
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Psychopathy?
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i don't really know what psychopathy is but it seems to have something to do with low sensitivity to punishment. in my case i was extremely sensitive to punishment but it still didn't feel like other people were real
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Solipsism?
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Solipsism has more of a connotation of an intellectual position and I'm wanting to refer more specifically to an experiential thing. There's a particular way it feels for nobody to be real.
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Seconding “solipsism” as a descriptor—also reminds me of NPC as an insult and how video games / VR are commonly used as a metaphor for understanding reality by disaffected individuals, which can be extremely destructive in this context.
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Been struggling to clarify and describe this issue, first serious confrontation with it was the polemics on narcissism from The Last Psychiatrist (https://thelastpsychiatrist.com ). Perhaps you’re looking for the clinical term “mind-blindness”? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-blindness …
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What part of sociopathy doesn’t fit this definition?
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the thing i want a word for is more like a symptom than a syndrome. it may be a symptom of sociopathy but it may also be a symptom of e.g. depression (or hmm maybe it's the other way around who knows)
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