Ok, so, is it that people think being an empath can’t come from anything and still be something?
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you’re not an empath, you have complex ptsd from being forced to manage other people’s emotions at a young age
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It seems like people who find the “empath” irritating mostly strike at 1) where it comes from, or 2) whether they’re accurate about the others’ feelings…
But, like, why does this bother people so much? What’s the common bad experience that I’m missing?
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i actually have never met someone who calls themselves an empath but this is my guess
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i think it's easy to read claiming the empath label as asserting something like "i have a cool special ability that you don't and that makes me better than you"
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Yeah I’ve never heard someone sling it as identity, defense, or pride, so it’s hard for me to hear it that way (though there are lots of people out there, so im sure its out there, probably easy to find on TikTok or something)
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i’ve only ever seen backlash to it on twitter, never the actual thing. they might be on insta 😅