Post by crazypapercups on Aug 27, 2007 15:35:28 GMT -5
I tend to be marked as either 'cold' or 'distant' because of a lack of empathy in my brain, and honestly, I don't get it. Just beacuse I don't feel anything when you tell me your fish died, I'm cold..
hm.
Now, this may not bring up much concern, ''so what? it's just a damn fish.", okay. I get it, but there are things that many people feel horribly strong about that I don't really care what's up about it.
i.e. May grandfather died a while ago in...2002. maybe, I don't recall...okay, I don't even remember the date. Which many people think is an awful thing, am I an awful person for not remembering? Am I an awful person for neither crying nor attending his funeral? Maybe, society says 'yes'.
I really don't understand how people can feel bad for others the way they do.
i.e. "OMG -something or other not directly about person- and it's AWFUL."
"Oh I'M SO SORRY."
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS, Why are YOU sorry?
okay? I get so bothered when I give bad news and people apologize. Did you make it happen? no? well then, don't be sorry about it. Maybe my lack of feeling is due to one of my 'illnesses' yes, I have been professionally evaluated and dubbed with ... a lot, but whatever, They keep me relatively unaware of what's wrong with my brain, for good reason, so yeah. Anyways, yeah.
Some people find my lack of empathy unnerving, someone might say something terrible has happened, while others gasp, I sit there and stare at them like they're stupid, without meaning to, mind, you, it's just my default 'riiight.' look. A lot of people ask me if I'm okay. I'm peachy as can be usually. I don't understand how they just assume I'm unhappy by looking at me.
My social skills are under par, I know that, but just, urgh.
It's either I feel nothing, or I'm imploding.
I do not explode, I implode.
sad but true
~Adrian Riddle.
hm.
Now, this may not bring up much concern, ''so what? it's just a damn fish.", okay. I get it, but there are things that many people feel horribly strong about that I don't really care what's up about it.
i.e. May grandfather died a while ago in...2002. maybe, I don't recall...okay, I don't even remember the date. Which many people think is an awful thing, am I an awful person for not remembering? Am I an awful person for neither crying nor attending his funeral? Maybe, society says 'yes'.
I really don't understand how people can feel bad for others the way they do.
i.e. "OMG -something or other not directly about person- and it's AWFUL."
"Oh I'M SO SORRY."
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS, Why are YOU sorry?
okay? I get so bothered when I give bad news and people apologize. Did you make it happen? no? well then, don't be sorry about it. Maybe my lack of feeling is due to one of my 'illnesses' yes, I have been professionally evaluated and dubbed with ... a lot, but whatever, They keep me relatively unaware of what's wrong with my brain, for good reason, so yeah. Anyways, yeah.
Some people find my lack of empathy unnerving, someone might say something terrible has happened, while others gasp, I sit there and stare at them like they're stupid, without meaning to, mind, you, it's just my default 'riiight.' look. A lot of people ask me if I'm okay. I'm peachy as can be usually. I don't understand how they just assume I'm unhappy by looking at me.
My social skills are under par, I know that, but just, urgh.
It's either I feel nothing, or I'm imploding.
I do not explode, I implode.
sad but true
~Adrian Riddle.